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Can anxiety make you hypervigilant to physical sensations/symptoms throughout your body?
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Yes, that is typical.: Increased body awareness is a notorious and common component of most of the anxiety disorders, but especially generalized anxiety and panic disorder. Best wishes.
Answered 12/13/2013
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Yes it can: Anxiety can cause all kinds of physical symptoms, and also make you hypervigilant to physical sensations all over your body. It can also make you misinterpret those sensations and become very alarmed about them.
Answered 6/7/2019
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