Anxiety Symptoms

Anxiety has many names—it can come in the form of anxiety or stress disorders, sleep disorder, and even depression. The severity of anxiety symptoms could range from mild to serious and a patient could suffer from one or more of these signs. A physician is the best person who can truly diagnose whether you are really suffering from anxiety.

The general signs of this disorder are:

• Stiffness, pressure, tension, back pains, inability to move back muscles, or muscle spasms.
• The body temperature is dramatically increased or decreased (drastic change in temperature).
• Pale facial color or complexion
• The opposite of being pale could also be experienced which is flushing of the skin
• Extreme fatigue
• Itchiness, burning sensation on the skin, extreme dermal sensitivity
• Dizziness or disorientation
• Feeling of being electrocuted
• Clumsiness
• The feeling of passing out or fainting
• Falling sensation
• Symptoms that are similar to signs of flu could also be apparent
• Palpitations
• Twitching of the muscles
• Vomiting or nausea
• Hyperactivity
• Lethargy
• Tension of the muscles which tend to persist
• Sweating excessively during the night
• Numbness
• Sometimes, muscles even tend to throb or pulsate
• Tightness of the chest (like an anvil is being placed on it); chest discomfort
• Missed heartbeats
• Sore scalp (especially at the nape area)
• Patient gets easily startled
• Sweating profusely
• Shaking or trembling
• Weight gain or weight loss
• Frequent urination

These symptoms are only physical, when it comes to the emotional symptoms, here’s the list:

• Overwhelming feeling each time
• Fear of death
• Fear of losing control
• Fear of making a fool of yourself
• Fear of fainting
• Fear of losing one’s mind
• Severe self-consciousness
• The need to be seated near exit points
• Seems to be afraid of everything
• Déjà vu
• Difficulty of forming thoughts or even following conversations
• Having bad dreams or nightmares
• Mind chattering
• Difficulty in concentrating

There are many more different symptoms of anxiety but these are the most prevalent. You don’t have to experience most of these to be diagnosed with anxiety attacks; you can have one symptom and have this disorder.