Over 100 symptoms associated with Anxiety

Hello ladies!

I have been feeling dreadful all day today, like I was coming down with a bug. I did some googling and found this search. I hope it helps you as much as it helped me realize what is considered anxiety. The symptoms that we experience are caused by our plunging hormones but this list lets us know what symptoms are associated with our nervous system and manifests itself as a form of anxiety. It's pretty interesting to say the least.

Anxiety Symptoms

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Body Anxiety Symptoms:

Allergy and anxiety

Allergies and anxiety

Allergy problems, increase in allergies (number, sensitivity, reactions, lengthier reactions)

Anxiety cough

Asthma and anxiety

Back pain, stiffness, tension, pressure, soreness, spasms, immobility in the back or back muscles

Blanching (looking pale, loss of color in the face or skin)

Blushing, turning red, flushed face, flushed skin, blushing, red face or skin

Body aches, parts of or your entire body feels sore and achy, feels like your body and muscles are bruised

Body jolts

Body zaps

Body shakes

Body trembling, shaking, anxiety symptoms

Body tremors

Body temperature increase or decrease, change in body temperature

Brain zaps

Burning skin, itchy, crawly, prickly or other skin sensations, skin sensitivity, numbness on the skin

Burning skin sensation on the face, neck, ears, scalp, or shoulders

Buzzing sensation in the feet, toes, hands, fingers, arms, legs

Chest pain anxiety symptoms

Chest pains anxiety symptoms

Chest tightness feeling

Choking

Choking feeling in throat

Chronic Fatigue, exhaustion, super tired, worn out

Chronic pain and anxiety

Clumsiness, feeling clumsy, co-ordination problems with the limbs or body

Cold chills, feeling cold all the time

Cold flashes, flash

Cold hands and feet

Craving sugar, sweets, chocolate, usual craving for sugar and sweets

Difficulty speaking, moving mouth, talking, co-ordination problems with the mouth or tongue

Dizziness, feeling lightheaded, dizzy, feeling dizzy

Electric shock feeling, body zaps

Excess of energy, you feel you can't relax

Falling dropping sensation

Feeling faint

Feel ill and sick, yet can't describe how you feel but that you feel ill in some way

Feel like you are going to pass out

Feel cold, chilly, cold all the time

Feel wrong, different, foreign, odd, or strange

Feels like floor is moving, swaying

Flu-like symptoms, feel sick or ill, feel like you are coming down with the flu

Flushed face, red face, flushed skin

Frequent urination

Frequent urination at night

Frequent urination in men

Hair loss, hair is thinning, or clumps of hair are falling out, balding

Headaches, migraine headaches, anxiety headaches

Head and Brain Zaps

Head and brain zaps - medication causes

Heart palpitations, racing heart

Hot flash, flashes

Hyperactivity, excess energy, nervous energy

Hypersensitivity; super sensitive nerves, hearing, touch, tastes

Increased or decreased sex drive

Infection - increased infections, persistent infection

Motion sickness feeling

Mouth or throat clicking or grating sound/noise when you move your mouth or jaw, such as when talking

Muscle tension, stiffness, aches, pains

Muscles that vibrate, jitter, tremor, or shake when used

Muscle twitching

Muscle weakness

Nausea

Nausea vomiting

Neck, back, shoulder tension and stiffness

Neck tension

Nervous cough

Night sweats, waking up in a sweat, profusely sweating at night, anxiety night sweats

No energy, feeling lethargic, tired, exhausted, chronic fatigue

Numb tinging hands

Numbness

Numbness tingling, numbness and tingling

Numbness and tingling fingers

Numbness and tingling, and other skin sensations on hands, feet, face, head, or any other places on the body

Pins and needles: all over, in the hands and feet, fingers, left arm, etc.

Pounding heart, heart feels like it is beating too hard

Pulsing or throbbing muscles. Pulsing or throbbing sensation

Racing heart, heart palpitations

Red skin, skin looks like or is turning red

Rib or rib cage tightness, pressure, or feeling like a tight band around the rib cage

Sexual Dysfunction, sexual uninterest

Shaking anxiety feelings

Shooting pains anxiety symptoms

Shooting pains, stabbing pains, and odd pressures in the neck, head, or face

Shooting pains in the face

Shooting pains in the scalp or head

Skipped heart beats

Sore or tight scalp, headaches, neck tension

Startle easily

Sweating, profuse, excessive, uncontrollable sweating

The floor feels like it is moving either down or up, swaying

Tightness in the ribs or rib cage area, may also feel like a tight band around the ribs or rib cage area.

Tingling numb hands

Tingling, tingly, pins and needles sensations - anywhere on the body, including the hands, feet, legs, arms, head, mouth, chest, groin area

Throat or mouth clicking or grating sound/noise when you move your mouth or jaw, such as when talking

TMJ

Trembling, shaking, tremors

Twitching

Unsteadiness, dizziness, feeling dizzy or lightheaded

Urgency to urinate, sudden urge to go to the washroom, sudden urge to pee

Warm spells

Weak - feel weak, weakness, low energy, light, soft, like you may faint

Weak legs, arms, or muscles

Weak limbs/extremities

Weight gain; sudden weight gain

Weight loss; sudden weight loss

Chest Anxiety Symptoms:

Anxiety Chest Tremors feelings symptoms

Anxiety Cough

Asthma symptoms and attacks

Chest pain anxiety symptoms

Chest pains anxiety symptoms

Chest tightness anxiety symptoms

Esophageal spasms

Heart attack or anxiety attack (panic attack)

Heart Palpitations

Feel like you have to force yourself to breathe

Find it hard to breath, feeling smothered

Excessive yawning anxiety

Nervous Cough

Out of breath anxiety

Racing Heart

Rib or rib cage tightness, pressure, or feeling like a tight band around the rib cage

Shooting chest pains anxiety symptoms

Shortness of breath

Short of breath stress symptoms

Shooting sharp stabbing pains in the chest

Tightness, pressue, fullness, pain in the chest

Emotions (see mood - anxiety symptoms associated with emotions, mood, and feelings)

Fears Anxiety Symptoms:

A heightened fear of what people think of you

Afraid of being trapped in a place with no exits

Constant feeling of being overwhelmed.

Fear of being in public

Fear of dying

Fear of losing control

Fear of impending doom

Fear of making mistakes or making a fool of yourself to others

Fear of passing out

Fear that you are losing your mind

Fears about irrational things, objects, circumstances, or situations

Fears of going crazy, of dying, of impending doom, of normal things, unusual feelings and emotions, unusually frightening thoughts or feelings

Feeling afraid all the time

Heightened self awareness, or self-consciousness

Need to find nearest washrooms before you can feel comfortable

Need to seat near exits

Head Anxiety Symptoms (associated with the head):

Anxiety headaches, migraines headaches

Brain fog

Burning, itchy, tight scalp

Dizziness or light-headedness

Frequent headaches, migraine headaches

Feeling like there is a tight band around your head, pressure, tightness

Hair loss, hair is thinning, or clumps of hair are falling out

Having a humming, droning, rumbling, throbbing, vibrating-like, hissing, fizzing, or other types of sounds in your head

Headaches, migraines

Head, neck or shoulder tightness, stiffness, or pain

Head zaps, head tremors. brain zaps

Giddiness

Numbness

Numbness tingling, numbness and tingling

Shooting pains, stabbing pains, and odd pressures in the neck, head, or face

Shooting pains in the face

Shooting pains in the scalp or head

Tingling in Head

When you close your eyes you feel like are beginning to, or will, float upwards

Sore jaw that feels like a tooth ache

TMJ (Temporo-Mandibular Joint) - clenching of the jaw or grinding of the teeth

Hearing & Ear Anxiety Symptoms (associated with the ears and hearing):

Feel like there is something stuck in your ear, that your ear canal it plugged or blocked, that there is a pebble in your ear that you can't get out

Having a humming, droning, rumbling, throbbing, vibrating-like, hissing, fizzing, or other types of sounds in your head

Low rumbling sounds

Reduced hearing, frequent or intermittent reduced hearing or deafness in one or both ears

Ringing in the ears

Pulsing in the ears, throbbing sound in the ear(s)

Tickle or itch in your ear that you can't seem to get at

Tinnitus and Anxiety

Heart Anxiety Symptoms (associated with the heart):

Chest pain or discomfort

Chest pains anxiety symptoms

Concern about the heart

Find it hard to breath, feeling smothered, shortness of breath

Frequent yawning to try and catch your breath

Heart attack or anxiety attack (panic attack)

Heart Palpitations – beating hard or too fast, rapid heartbeat

Heart - Irregular heart rhythms, flutters or ‘skipped’ beats, tickle in the chest that makes you cough

Pounding heart, heart feels like it is beating too hard

Radiating pain in the left shoulder and arm

Shooting chest pains

Shortness of breath

Stabbing pains in the back, fear heart problem

Tight band around the chest, fear heart problem

You can find out if you are having a heart attack or anxiety attack (panic attack)

Mind Anxiety Symptoms (associated with the mind and thinking):

Afraid of everything

Altered state of reality, consciousness, or universe feeling

Brain Fog

Deja Vu, a feeling like you've done or experienced something before

Depersonalization

Derealization

Desensitization

Difficulty concentrating, short-term memory loss

Difficulty speaking

Difficulty thinking

Disorientation

Easily distracted

Fear of going crazy

Fear of losing control

Fear of impending doom

Feelings of unreality

Frequent feeling of being overwhelmed, or that there is just too much to handle or do

Having difficulty concentrating

Memory loss

Nightmares, bad dreams

Obsession about sensations or getting better

Slow motion feeling

Repetitive thinking or incessant ‘mind chatter’

Short-term learning impairment, have a hard time learning new information

Short-term memory impairment, can't remember what I did a few days, hours, or moments ago

Spaced out feelings, feeling spaced out

"Stuck" thoughts; thoughts, mental images, concepts, songs, or melodies that 'stick' in your mind and replay over and over again.

Trapped in your mind feeling

Underlying anxiety, apprehension, or fear

You often feel you are carrying the world on your shoulders

Mood Symptoms; Emotion Symptoms (associated with mood, emotions, and feelings):

Always feeling angry and lack of patience

Chronic Fatigue Anxiety Symptom, Syndrome

Depersonalization

Depression

Dramatic mood swings

Emotionally blunted, flat, or numb

Emotions feel numb; emotionally numb

Emotional flipping (dramatic mood swings)

Emotions feel wrong

Everything is scary, frightening

Feeling down in the dumps

Feeling like things are unreal or dreamlike

Frequently being on edge or 'grouchy'

Feel like crying for no apparent reason

Have no feelings about things you used to

Irritability, irritated, easily annoyed

Mood swings

Not feeling like yourself, detached from loved ones, emotionally numb

Underlying anxiety, apprehension, or fear

You feel like you are under pressure all the time

Mouth, Stomach, and Digestive System Anxiety Symptoms (associated with the mouth, stomach, and digestive system):

Bad taste in the mouth and anxiety

A tinny, metallic, or ammonia, or unusual smell or taste

Aerophagia (swallowing too much air, stomach distention, belching)

Burning mouth, feeling like the inside of your mouth is burning, or tingling, or like pins and needles, or all of these together or at different times

Burping, belching, frequent or excessive burping and belching, gas

Burning tongue, feeling like your tongue is burning, or tingling, or like pins and needles

Choking

Constant craving for sugar or sweets

Constant lump in the throat feeling

Constipation

Diarrhea

Difficulty swallowing

Difficulty talking, pronouncing certain letters or sounds, mouth feels like it isn't moving right, slurred speech

Dry mouth

Esophageal spasms

Feeling like you can't swallow properly or that something will get caught in your throat

Feeling like your tongue is swollen

IBS

Lack of appetite, Loss of appetite

Lump in the throat, tight throat, something stuck in your throat

Mouth muscles twitching/jumping

Mouth or throat clicking or grating sound/noise when you move your mouth or jaw, such as when talking

Nausea

Nausea vomiting

Nausea or abdominal stress

Nervous stomach

Stomach upset, gas, belching, bloating

Teeth grinding

The thought of eating makes you nauseous

Tight throat, lump in throat

Throat or mouth clicking or grating sound/noise when you move your mouth or jaw, such as when talking

TMJ

Tongue symptoms - Tingly, stretched, numb, frozen, itchy, crawly, burning, twitching, jumpy, aching, sore, or swollen tongue (when it isn't).

Urgency to urinate, frequent urination, sudden urge to go to the washroom

Vomiting

Skin Anxiety Symptoms (anxiety symptoms associated with the skin):

Burning itching skin (hands, feet, face, lips, etc.)

Burning skin sensations, skin sensitivity

Itching burning skin but no rash

Numbness

Numbness tingling, numbness and tingling

Red skin, looks like your skin is red or turning red for no reason

Skin problems, infections, rashes

Sleep Anxiety Symptoms (anxiety symptoms associated with sleep and sleep problems):

Difficulty falling or staying asleep

Frequent bad, bizarre, or crazy dreams

Hearing sounds in your head that jolt you awake

Insomnia, or waking up ill in the middle of the night

Jolting awake

Waking up in a panic attack

You feel worse in the mornings

Sight Anxiety Symptoms (anxiety symptoms associated with the eyes and sight):

Distorted, foggy, or blurred vision

Dry, watery or itchy eyes

Eye tricks, seeing things our of the corner of your eye that isn't there, stars, flashes

Eye problems vision symptoms

Eyes sensitive to light

Spots in the vision

Flashing lights when eyes are closed

Your depth perception feels wrong

Touch Anxiety Symptoms (anxiety symptoms associated with the sense of touch):

Burning skin sensations, skin sensitivity

Feeling cold or chilled

Numbness

Numbness tingling, numbness and tingling

Pain

Pins and needles: all over, in the hands and feet, fingers, left arm, etc.

Other anxiety symptoms are often described as: Being like a hypochondriac, muscle twinges, worry all the time, tingles, gagging, tightness in the chest, tongue twitches, shaky, breath lump, heart beat problems, head tingles, itchy tingling in arms and legs, and so many more.

In addition, you might also find yourself worrying compulsively about:

Having a heart attack

Having a serious undetected illness

Dying prematurely

Going insane or losing your mind/li>

Suddenly snapping

Losing it

Uncontrollably harming yourself or someone you love

Losing control of your thoughts and actions

Being embarrassed or making a fool out of yourself

Losing control

Fainting in public

Not breathing properly

Losing control of reality

Choking or suffocating

Being alone

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