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What are some signs of anxiety?

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Generalized Anxiety: Anxiety disorders cover a wide spectrum of conditions but the most common features include: restlessness, excessive worry, easliy fatigued, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension and sleep disturbance. Sometimes the anxiety can be intense to the degree of panic attack which is a discrete period of fear and disconfort with physical symtoms and may last a few minutes.

Answered 1/11/2021

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Anxiety may include: Feelings of panic, fear, and uneasiness uncontrollable, obsessive thoughts repeated thoughts or flashbacks of traumatic experiences nightmares ritualistic behaviors, such as repeated hand washing problems sleeping cold or sweaty hands and/or feet shortness of breath palpitations an inability to be still and calm dry mouth numbness or tingling in the hands or feet nausea muscle tension dizziness.

Answered 5/5/2018

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Multiple: We have answered this before , please go back to my answer on this. Mainly it involves four axes of symptoms, cognitive (thoughts) , emotional (fear) behavioral ( avoidance) and physical such as shortness of breath, sweating, chest pain, tingling, dry mouth, hot flashes, chills, wobbly legs, cramps, diarrhea, tachycardia, shaking, nausea, and dizziness one can have any combination of them.

Answered 12/26/2019

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Dr. Barbara Lavi answered

Specializes in Clinical Psychology

There R many signs: People often take their anxiety out on their body. For 1 person it leads 2 headaches or backaches 4 others it could involve stomach disorders. Having "heart aches" is another common complaint. Sometimes it's a metaphor 4 issues that r bothering u, i.e. relationships. Other signs, fidgetiness, nail biting, trouble sleeping, poor appetite, fatigue to name a few.

Answered 5/26/2016

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