It’s been my experience that people always assume that generalized anxiety disorder is preferable to social anxiety disorder, because it sounds more vague and threatening, but those people are totally wrong. For me, having generalized anxiety disorder is basically like having all the other anxiety disorders smoothed into one. Even the ones that aren’t recognized by modern science. Things like birds-will-probably-smother-me-in-my-sleep anxiety disorder and I-keep-crackers-in-my-pocket-in-case-I-get-trapped-in-an-elevator anxiety disorder. Basically I’m just generally anxious about f***ING everything. In fact, I suspect that’s how they came up with the name.