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nervous

nervous Nervous means feeling worried or anxious.

Nervous means feeling worried or anxious. In this source, it refers to worry that can happen in everyday life, but in generalized anxiety disorder it is felt more often or more strongly and may be out of proportion to the situation.

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Drafting source: National Institute of Mental Health. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: What You Need to Know. HTML publication snapshot 2026-10-18; SHA-256 77e8e3f9797bdd3e545d836e3c7a022d849dbcb9046d75b9663fada09c613399. “Generalized Anxiety Disorder: What You Need to Know” (https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/generalized-anxiety-disorder-gad).
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