5 symptoms of anxiety
Anxiety can cause a number of symptoms, including:
- Feeling fearful or worried: Feeling overly worried or fearful, or having a sense of impending danger, panic, or doom
- Difficulty concentrating: Having trouble concentrating or making decisions
- Restlessness: Feeling restless, tense, or on edge
- Trouble sleeping: Having difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep
- Sweating: Sweating, trembling, or shaking, especially in the palms and soles of the feet.
Other symptoms of anxiety include:
- Feeling irritable
- Experiencing nausea or abdominal pain or heart palpitations
- Feeling faint, dizzy, or lightheaded
- Shortness of breath or breathing very quickly
- A tingling in your fingers or lips
- Dry mouth
- Can’t stop thinking about a problem, or feeling that you’re losing control.
Anxiety can affect your daily life and make it hard to sleep and concentrate.
What is anxiety?
We all have stress and fear but most can can control them. This is not anxiety, and it is not a disease.
True (clinical) anxiety is defined as ‘unreasonable fear’. It is more than ‘normal stress’. It can range from mild problem to severe illness.
If you are experiencing significant anxiety, seek help from your doctor.
