If there’s something that you really shouldn’t do, it’s giving people with anxiety something to worry about.

A psychiatrist suggested that Oscar Pistorius may have been suffering from generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) during the shooting of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, and this has sparked some serious paranoia among fellow loved ones who also suffer from the condition.

As a result, the SA Depression and Anxiety Group‘s director Cassey Chambers has now been receiving phone calls from concerned citizens, worried that friends or family may have “unpredictable, unstable and violent” outbursts, just like Oscar. Probably not.

We have had people asking if their loved ones with GAD need to be hospitalised immediately.

Chambers has been assuring everyone that chances of having an Oscar-moment are very slim, and that GAD sufferers (or more importantly, the family and friends of the diagnosed) don’t need to go into full panic-mode.

Woosah.

[source: News24]