Anxiety can present its self in many ways. It can start out as a form of severe stress, which the individual will experience numerous symptoms including; insomnia, fatigue, no desire to do daily tasks or things they enjoy doing. To more severe symptoms such as moodiness, fits or anger, crying, symptoms similar to depression, and a whole host of physical symptoms.
Physical symptoms of anxiety can be mild, moderate or severe. Headaches, heart palpation’s, increase in heartbeat, chest pain, shortness of breath, muscle and joint pain with no apparent cause. Even back pain and spasms are an anxiety symptom. Muscle twitches which can occur anywhere there is a muscle in the eye lids, face, arms, legs. Muscle twitches in the legs can turn into a condition called Restless Leg Syndrome, where the legs seem to be constantly moving. This makes sleeping or even sitting extremely difficult.
Shaking, sweating, feeling weak, sharp quick pains in the jaw, neck, shoulder area and even in your eyes are all physical symptoms of an anxiety attack. There are of course several more anxiety symptoms these are just a few of the most common and the most uncommon!
Being able to tell the difference of an anxiety caused pain and another type of the pain is key to truly knowing what your anxiety symptoms are. Not everyone will experience all of the symptoms of anxiety. Or they will experience a symptom and not even recognize it as an anxiety symptom.
Usually people who suffer from anxiety have a few of the symptoms, by a few I mean up to a dozen. They tend to experience these symptoms either individually or all at once. The symptoms are what most people define as an anxiety attack. When a new symptoms is introduced to the mix, it can not only frighten the already anxious person but cause an anxiety attack.
It is really important to be able to recognize “your” anxiety symptoms as well as educate yourself about all the other symptoms. In the event that you should start experiencing new anxiety symptoms you don’t want to become alarmed.
The best advice anyone can give you, is too see your doctor tell him/her all the symptoms (write ever last one of them down.) Your doctor may want to run a couple of routine tests (blood work, EKG, chest X-ray, the general check-up tests) to make sure there is no underlying medical condition that is causing any or all of the symptoms.
Once you are given your clean bill of health, you can seek treatment(s) for your anxiety and hopefully all or most of the anxiety symptoms will go away and you can get back to the business of living a happy, enjoyable life!