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

Sometimes I get very bad anxiety in my hands? So I try to keep my hands busy but going to the gym, or colouring in, or sometimes I even sit with an elastic bands in my hands. It works :)

Anxiety is something that is triggered from your brain when you are typically feeling overwhelmed. Your heart could race, you could shake, and your body's only way to think of how to deal with it is to sometimes shut itself down. Whenever I was faced with anxiety, I would always take myself to a separate place so that I could exercise deep breathing to calm myself, even verbally telling myself that everything would be okay until I could feel my nerves start to relax.

Anxiety is inside your brain. There's a lot of chemicals and hormones up there, and a lot of wires and complicated things. Everything is related. Depression with chest ache, anxiety with stomach ache or hyperventilating. You can not prevent anxiety. It happens. But you can keep it from eating you up by distracting yourself and making breathing exercices. Lay down, put your hands next to your sides, take deep breaths through your nose, hold it in for 3 seconds, then exhale through your mouth. Do this for 3-4 minutes. Don't worry! Getting dizzy is completely normal. Focus on your breathing, and on your body. Feel the bad energy escape with every breath. Imagination is the key. Stay safe

I like to take deep breathes and refocus myself on the situation, to not only assess it but to understand why I might be feeling this way.

When you experience anxiety, your mind perceives danger. The body physically reacts to danger by initiating the fight or flight response. Your body begins producing adrenalin, causing the heart to race which pumps blood to the muscles faster. This enables you to use your muscles to run away from danger or to fight the danger off. Shortness of breath and feeling "wired" are also effects of the fight or flight response. With anxiety, we perceive danger even when there may be no real danger or no physical threat (but perhaps a perceived threat to our security, future, etc.). Some things you can do include learning relaxation exercises, challenging anxious thoughts and reducing your perception of danger. The anxiety self-help guide goes into more detail about these things and is a useful place to start.

Anxiety can drain all your energy and make you feel tired almost all the time.This is because it consumes your ''mental energy'' from over thinking.Even though you feel tired , the very first step to do is to divert the mind from continuous thinking.Exercising might seems paradoxical , since your are already tired from thinking,but continual exercise can infact make use less tired and energertic overtime.

My anxiety also affects me physically! I'll get a racing heart or a lot of tightness in my chest. I'm not sure if these match your physical symptoms. What I've been taught to help those is breathing strategies and mindfulness/meditation. I would try those! But also working on the mental symptoms might also help decrease the physical symptoms. I highly recommend reading the anxiety guide on 7 cups for strategies. There is a lot of useful information there. Different techniques are going to work for different people so you may have to try out a few different ones before finding some that work for you!

Anxiety can affect a person in many ways including physically. To prevent feeling that way is difficult because you may feel tired or anxious. It is good to keep your mind on goals you have and also walking in nature or going to the gym. It is good to talk to someone about how you are feeling because they may be going through the same thing. Medication may help too. Meditation may help to lower anxiety and help with focus. I like to leave my house and get fresh air. Taking deep breaths of fresh air is better for you. Anxiety can set in at any time so preparing before an anxiety attach can help reduce the symptoms if you have a plan in place

the mind and body are very closely related and stress can trigger very real physiological responses in the body such as symptoms associated with panic attacks. There are several exercises you can engage in when feel anxious or nervous to bring you back to center. For instance, when my mind is racing and i am in the middle of a panic attack i like to engage in grounding activities. My go to is engaging in all my senses one at a time. I will hone in on my present condition and try to pick out specific things that i can feel, taste, smell, see, and hear which distracts my racing thoughts and brings me back into the present.