What to Look for in Anxiety Symptoms

Anxiety symptoms can help you determine if you have anxiety to be able to make preventive measures.

Every time we feel worried about certain things or fear about the possibilities of what might happen if, a lot of ifs- these are what we call anxiety. Anxiety is a brief, persistent, and extreme feeling of worry, uncertainties, and fear over a tense situation, and fortunately, it is controllable. As a matter of fact, anxiety is reversible, and can be successfully treated naturally if found out through the anxiety symptoms. An anxiety condition is not an accidental, unidentified, and uncontrollable illness, even if it feels like it is. Anxiety conditions come out for precise reasons and have specific reasons and underlying explanations why they continue.

To be able to know if you have anxiety, you should know first the symptoms. Here is some of the anxiety symptoms associated with anxiety disorders. And since each individual has different chemical composition, anxiety symptoms and their intensity may vary from person to person. The anxiety symptoms we may experience physically are:

Body:
-Burning skin sensation
-Persistent fatigue
-Electric shock feeling
-Excess of energy, you feel you can't relax
-Feel like you are going to faint
-Feeling cold
-Hyperactivity
-Increased or decreased sex drive
-Muscle twitching
-Tightness or stiffness of shoulder, back, and neck
-Numbness or tingling in hands, feet, face, head, or any other parts of your body
-Persistent muscle tension
-Jumpy
-Too much sweating
-Trembling, shaking
-Urgency to urinate, frequent urination
-Weak legs, arms, muscles

Chest:
-Chest pain or discomfort, tight chest, or tight chest muscles
-Concern about the heart
-Fell like you have difficulty breathing
-Shortness of breath
-Frequent yawning to try to catch your breath
-Palpitations
-Irregular heart rhythms, flutters or skipped beats, tickle in the chest that makes you cough

Head:
-Dizziness or light-headedness
-Frequent headaches, migraine headaches
-Head, neck, or shoulder tightness or stiffness
-Overexcitement
-Shooting pains in the face, scalp, or head,
-Sore jaw that feels like a toothache
-Clenching of the jaw or grinding of the teeth

Emotions:
-Dramatic mood swings
-Emotional blunting
-Wrong feeling of emotions
-Frequently feel like crying for no reason

Mind:
-Fear of going crazy, losing control, fear of impending doom
-Frequent feeling of being overwhelmed, or that there is too much to handle or do
-Having difficulty concentrating
-Racing thoughts or rapid thinking
-Obsession about sensations or getting better
-You feel like you are carrying the world on your shoulders

Hearing:
-Irregular or frequent reduced hearing or deafness in one or both ears
-Low rumbling sounds
-Ringing in the ears

Mood:
-Irritable
-Depression
-Feeling like things is not real or dreamlike
-Have no feeling about the things you used to
-Feel like you are pressured all the time

Sight:
-Distorted, foggy, or blurred vision
-Itchy, dry, or watery eyes
-Eye tricks, seeing things on the corners of your eyes that aren't there, stars, flashes
-Eyes' sensitivity to light
-Spots in the vision,
-Flashing lights when eyes closed
-Deep perception feels wrong

Mouth/Stomach
-Constant craving for sweets
-Chocking or difficulty swallowing
-Constipation or diarrhea
-Dry mouth
-Feeling like your tongue is swollen
-Frequent upset stomach, bloating, gaseous
-Lack of appetite or taste -Nausea or the thought of eating makes you nauseous
-Tight throat, lump in throat

Sleep:
-Difficulty falling or staying asleep
-Frequent bad, odd, or crazy dreams
-Hearing sounds in your head that can awaken you
-Insomnia or waking up ill in the middle of the night
-Waking up in a panic attack
-Feeling worse in the mornings

These are some of the prevalent anxiety symptoms, but the symptoms on the list are incomplete and not limited as to what is listed above. It is common for normal people to experience or two of anxiety symptoms, and some may experience them all.