physical symptoms of anxiety and stress

Physical symptoms of anxiety and stress:

Generalized anxiety is characteristic by excessive anxiety and worry about various kind of life circumstances. Anxiety is not only related to one specific activity, time or event such as trauma, obsesions and phobias.

Below are the list of physical symptoms of anxiety and stress :

Motor tension :

muscle tension and arching
tension headache
trembling / shaky / twiching
restlessness
tiredness /fatigue

Simptom of autonomic overactivity due to anxiety or stress:

dryness of mouth
palpitation or increase heart rate
increase sweating cold clammy hands
flushes or chills
difficult to swallowing and patient usually fell " lumpin throat "
diarrhoea / abdominal stress
frequency of micturation
shortness of breath/ feeling of smothering
dizziness or lightheadedness

Physical symptoms of anxiety and stress according to systems :

Neurological : dizziness, headache, tremblng, twiching, shaking, numbness
cardiovascular system : increase heart rate, palpitations, facial flushing, chest dicomfort
Gastrointestinal : indigestion, nausea, loose stools, abdominal distress
Respiratory system : shortness of reath, hyperventilation, air hunger
Cognitive symptoms : fear of dying,lost of concentration, blank mind,hypervigilance

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