What are the symptoms of Anxiety?
Anxiety disorders are often debilitating chronic conditions, which can be present from an early age or begin suddenly after a triggering event. They are prone to flare up at times of high stress and are frequently accompanied by physiological symptoms such as:
Anxiety symptoms
Feeling worried all the time
Tiredness
Irritability
Unable to sleep
Difficulty concentrating
Racing heartbeat
Sweating
Muscle tension and pains
Shaking
Breathing heavily
Feeling dizzy or faint
Indigestion or diarrhoea
These symptoms can then lead on to:
Panic symptoms
Sudden and overwhelming fear and sense of loss of control
Breathing quickly – Hyperventilation
Increased pounding heartbeat
Severe sweating
And in the worst cases:
An overwheling feeling that you are going to die.
Living with anxiety
A person with anxiety can worry about mundane events and struggle to make everyday decisions or think with any real clarity of mind. Once a thought is trapped in a sufferer’s mind, they can stress about it obsessively and become increasingly anxious. What may appear trivial and simple to a person without anxiety can be potentially overpowering for an anxiety sufferer.
Anxiety and panic can often be accompanied by a loss of appetite and can cause unwanted weight loss. In some cases, there are bouts of depression and a sufferer has pessimistic outlook of the future, perceiving evrything as hopeless.
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