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When you’re anxious for prolonged periods of time it can have a devastating impact on you physically.

Your adrenaline levels skyrocket, you get no restful sleep, and your immune system shuts down.

All of this can lead to you experiencing an almost endless series of unpleasant symptoms.

Anxiety can cause just about any symptom you can imagine. Some of them are annoying and some of them are terrifying.

During my time with anxiety I experienced dozens of symptoms. Some of them lasted for months at a time and convinced me I had a horrible disease.

The only thing that ever helped me to deal with my anxiety symptoms was learning more about them.

Finding out why my anxiety caused a particular symptom would reassure me that I didn’t have a serious medical problem, and it would also help me find ways to ease the symptom or even to stop it altogether.

Since learning more about my anxiety symptoms helped me so much, I wanted to create a resource that would help other people who are going through the same thing.

That’s what this post is.

Below, you’ll find links to posts I’ve written on each symptom your anxiety might cause you. Each post will explain why your anxiety causes a particular symptom and what you can do to make it stop.

I add new symptoms to the list below all the time, so please check back often or bookmark this page.

If you have a symptom that I haven’t covered then please contact me here and let me know and I’ll see what I can do.

• headaches - pain, throbbing, or tenderness anywhere in your head
• palpitations - fast, erratic, or strong sensations of your own heartbeat anywhere around your body
• dizziness - feelings of dizziness, unsteadiness, or disorientation
• sweating - uncontrollable and undesirable sweating in any area of your body
• nausea - feelings that you might throw up or that your stomach is delicate or unsettled
• throat problems - soreness, dryness, burning, and tenderness in and around your throat
• numbness and tingling - numbness, tingling, and even burning sensations anywhere in your body, especially your hands, feet, and face

If you ever get numb or tingly feelings in your body, and if you’re also an anxious person, the two are almost certainly connected.

Numbness and tingling are very common physical symptoms of anxiety. They might not sound like severe symptoms to someone who’s never experienced them, but they can be uncomfortable at best and terrifying at worst.

For about a year of my life I suffered with constant numbness and tingling. Usually it was in my hands and feet, but occasionally I’d feel it in my face too. A couple of times I even felt it in my stomach.

The numbness and tingling could strike at any time, but I most often experienced them after I woke up, after a period of prolonged anxiety, and after panic attacks.

These symptoms went on so long it became unbearable. I went to my doctor a couple of times and she said it was anxiety.

I didn’t trust her so I Googled it. Big mistake.

Google told me that my numbness and tingling could be caused by an almost endless list of horrible neurological diseases.

That made my anxiety worse, and that made my numbness and tingling worse.

And yet another anxiety-induced vicious circle began.

In the end, the only thing that helped me was to learn more about the numbness and tingling and their connections to my anxiety.

I’d like to share with you what I learned, and hopefully that’ll help you overcome your own problems with numbness and tingling.

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Anxiety can cause physical symptoms in just about any area of your body. But the throat seems to be a hotspot.

There are multiple throat problems that can occur as a direct result of anxiety. In this post, I’m going to focus on the 3 most common ones.

During my time with anxiety I experienced each of these 3 throat problems, and that means I had the chance to learn a lot about them.

In this post I’ll share everything I learned. I’m hoping this information will help you with your own anxiety-related throat problems.

Since there are multiple throat problems that your anxiety can cause it’ll be best if we take a look at them one at a time.

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Nausea is an extremely common physical symptom of anxiety, and it’s one you’ve almost certainly experienced yourself.

Although nausea isn’t as unpleasant as some of the other physical symptoms your anxiety may cause, it can still negatively impact your quality of life.

If you feel sick all the time you’ll avoid doing things, you’ll avoid foods you like, and you’ll probably worry that something serious is making you feel unwell.

That’s the way nausea affected me, and I’m guessing that’s how it’s affecting you too.

As with all physical symptoms of anxiety, the best way to deal with nausea is to learn more about it.

If you find out why it happens, how it feels, and what you can do to stop it, nausea will become much less of a problem in your life.

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