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To deal with the stresses and anxiety from her job, Retsuko utilizes her time at night to go to her favorite Karaoke bar and sings! The plot twist is that she is a huge fan of heavy metal music and she sings it to make her stress and worry disappear!

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5) CRITERIA 

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5) CRITERIA 

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The DSM-5, in a sense, is the reference book for mental health disorders. It is used by psychologists and psychiatrists to help diagnose psychiatric illnesses (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
Retsuko shows the diagnoses of Generalized Anxiety Disorder with these traits:

Excessive Worry

Impaired Concentration

Difficulty Sleeping

Fatigue

Restlessness

Irritability

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Positive: * Researches believe if those who suffer with GAD think of positive outcomes to their worries rather than focus just on negative possibilities can deal with their GAD at a better level.
Negative: * Individuals that suffer from GAD tend to imagine only negative outcomes to future scenarios. * Another negative controversies would be that those who suffer with stress could believe that they have this diagnosis, when in reality, this stress could cause a false alarm within their vulnerability and misdiagnose the patient.

These first two positive and negative aspects clash immensely, due to the fact that individuals with GAD tend to only imagine the negative outcomes, causing the positive to be something they struggle to achieve.

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Generalized anxiety is characterized by intense, uncontrollable, chronic, and continuous worry that is distressing and unproductive, accompanied by physical symptoms of tenseness, irritability, and restlessness (Barlow, Durand, 2015).

Two-thirds of the population that suffer from GAD are female; it is more prevalent in woman than in men. (Barlow, Durand, 2015).

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* American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author

* Barlow, D. H., & Durand, V. M. (2015). Abnormal psychology: An integrative approach.

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Antidepressants (Medication)

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (Psychotherapy)

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Excessive worry - Retsuko worries about being successful and doing her job well, as well as constantly trying to do good and 'people please'. Due to always worrying if she is fulfilling these requirements, it affects her ability to function normally day-to-day properly.

Impaired Concentration - She's unable to concentrate on one thing for a consecutive amount of time; always jumping from one worried thought to another. She constantly has multiple things on her mind and things she has to do, therefore it causes her mind to become frantic and makes her unable to concentrate well.

Irritability - She is easily irritable towards her boss and coworkers due to the impact of the other multiple symptoms she shows.

Difficulty sleeping - She has a habit of staying up all night with worry and her jumbled thoughts, often getting a small amount of sleep, which always contributes to her irritability. Her work life and home life clash together, creating far more stress and worry on her part.

Fatigue - She is almost always tired at work due to not getting enough sleep because of her constant worrying. Very few occasions is she not in some way, mentally or physically, exhausted.

Restlessness - Due to her thoughts, she is more often than not restless wherever she may be at or be doing. Work has her on edge and causes her to stress and worry too much; this also contributes to her muscle tensions and aches.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder