Symptoms of Anxiety
When you’re anxious, you may also experience a range of physical symptoms. These happen because of the bodies’ so-called “fight or flight” response, which is caused by the release of the stress hormone adrenaline. The symptoms can include:
- abdominal discomfort
- diarrhea
- dry mouth
- rapid heartbeat or palpitations
- tightness or pain in chest
- shortness of breath
- dizziness
- frequent urination
- difficulty swallowing
- shaking
Psychological symptoms can include:
- insomnia
- feeling worried or uneasy all the time
- feeling tired
- being irritable or quick to anger
- an inability to concentrate
- a fear that you are going “mad”
- feeling unreal and not in control of your actions (depersonalisation), or detached from your surroundings (derealisation)
“Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind, If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”
Arthur Somers Roche
