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How do symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder differ?

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Generalized anxiety is an excessive anxiety that occurs more days than not in a person's life. It is unrelenting. Panic disorder is characterized by brief periods of intense discomfort. They are non stimulus bound and a person can be free of the panic episodes for long periods of time.

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