i have a severe anxiety disorder.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by significant feelings of anxiety and fear. Anxiety is a worry about future events and fear is a reaction to current events. These feelings may cause physical symptoms, such as a fast heart rate and shakiness. There are a number of anxiety disorders: including generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobia, social anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, panic disorder, and selective mutism. The disorder differs by what results in the symptoms. People often have more than one anxiety disorder. The cause of anxiety disorders is a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Risk factors include a history of child abuse, family history of mental disorders, and poverty. Anxiety disorders often occur with other mental disorders, particularly major depressive disorder, personality disorder, and substance use disorder. To be diagnosed symptoms typically need to be present for at least six months, be more than would be expected for the situation, and decrease functioning. Other problems that may result in similar symptoms including hyperthyroidism; heart disease; caffeine, alcohol, or cannabis use; and withdrawal from certain drugs, among others.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have a pretty bad anxiety disorder."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Is that accompanied by nervous behavior? Do you often pace back and forth?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I once had an episode so bad that I could not enter a building because I was afraid of the small booths."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Wow that seems severe, is it often just a sense of intense dread over anticipated events?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, I do not like to meet new people at all. It happens so randomly, and it used to not be like this when i was younger."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Are you married? Otherwise I can imagine that your anxiety would impact dating or other forms of courtship for you."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I will be married next year. It did impact the start of our relationship but all is well now."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Wow congratulations, were you dating for a long time? Some couples date for a very long time while they try to determine how romantically compatible they are."}, {"role": "user", "content": "yes, we have been dating for a long time. I'm going to ask her dad to marry her in the next few months and then we can plan our wedding next month. I just hope my anxiety disorder wont stand in the wya."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Does it manifest itself as an accelerated hear rate or shakiness? Don't let it stop you."}]