Why does my anxiety sometimes affect me physically, and how can I help prevent that?

anxiety affects a lot of parts of your body. Anxiety can cause panic attacks which can cause shortness of breath, dizziness, and affects that make you feel like you're having a heart attack. To prevent these cases you can follow these instructions that can be used at any time Get to a relaxed state. Sit up-right and take consecutive deep breaths. As you’re sitting upright look at something across from you that’s eye level. Keep your head straight and move your eyeballs to the ceiling as high as then can go Once your eyes starts to flutter close your eyes but leave your eyeballs still upwards Take a deep breath and hold it in Release the breath and at the same time drop your eyeballs and open your eyes Repeat until you feel completely relaxed

This is to do with the human body's evolved defence mechanism, commonly referred to as "fight or flight." The reason for the physical effects of anxiety in modern times where the world has developed enough not to rely so much on this mechanism is that, when you're faced with fear there seems like an impossible choice - whether to run away or to face it head on. One way to prevent it, I've found, is through a technique called mindfulness. For the most part, it is a tactic to ground yourself and remind yourself of the physical area you're in (so that your thoughts stay with reality and do not become distorted/take off and spiral out of control into a panic attack). The particular mindfulness technique I find most beneficial is to name 5 things I can see, hear and feel.

When our mind is filled with something, it usually affects our body. The way to prevent that is taking care of the mind first. The best way is look for professional help with therapists. Keep looking until you find one that you feel comfortable to talk about your issues.

Just like you would exert it with your words, it is coming out of your body physically. Use calming techniques and anxiety-combatting tactics to calm down.

Anxiety impacts us physically because the mind/brain and the gut are interconnected. It is a connection that can cause gastrointestinal issues. To help with this, I would try to reduce your level of anxiety with techniques such as distracting or exercising.

Anxiety is a form of phobia, and therefore, it will cause your body to react very similarly as if you were face to face with your fear. I've personally found that meditation is very helpful, though this is difficult for some. Another alternative would be light/moderate excercise, frequent (but not excessive) reading, and, most importantly, accepting that your anxiety is actually anxiety and not something else. Acceptance will always help in any sort of stressful situation.

It's a circle that is triggered by a thought or a physical sensation that triggers a thought which then leads to a behaviour. If my heart starts pounding and I think to myself something like "I am having a heart attack and I am going to die" then I will feel worse. At this point my focus is on what is going on inside of me and my bodily sensations. The things I can do is to breathe from my stomach and try to relax my body. I guess that the thought of thinking one is going to die would scare anyone, but if one has been to the doctors and checked everything once, chances are extremely high that everything is ok and that this thought needs to be challenged by staying in the situation until fear goes away.

Anxiety is a reaction to stress. Therefore, when you body is stressed, it can affect many areas of your body physically. You can prevent stress by doing relaxation exercises, meditation, eating healthy, and sleeping at least 8 hours each night.

Normally after the onset of fear, your parasympathetic nervous system quickly kicks in to calm your body down by lowering your heart rate and blood pressure. But that does not happen during a panic attack. For some unknown reason, the parasympathetic system doesn't work properly during an attack, which leaves you to face disturbingly prolonged bodily panic

when you panic , you feel scared and fear the worst, your body will tense up in response to the fight or flight system to protect you