Anxiety and that Awful Muscle Tension / The Root Cause for Most of Your Symptoms

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Muscle tension has to be one of the most common symptom for anyone dealing with anxiety issues.
Not only can it make you feel plain uncomfortable and in pain but is actually the reason for most of your stress symptoms. Chest tightness, burning sensations, headaches, pins and needles feeling, muscle twitches and spasms, fatigue are just a few of them. I am sure that most of the physical sensations we experience can be traced back to muscle tension.
The issue with muscle tension is that it creates symptoms that we in our alerted state of mind will often associate with something dangerous or even life threatening. This then leads to more stress and more symptoms.
Bodily tension will also have an immediate impact on our mental state as well. Being under so much strain and pain will cast a dark shadow over our thoughts. Thoughts become negative, we aren’t able to think clearly, we become frightened and depressed and most importantly it drains us of any motivation and joy. This further accelerates the downward spiral and we suddenly find us in a place in which we are constantly tired but still on edge. For many of sleep becomes an issue and we develop insomnia and chronic fatigue.

That is why it is so important to focus on “healing” your body from this tension. Your whole recovery journey has to be laid in a way that focuses on releasing that built up tension.
Working out and exercise is a great starting point and with the “proper” lifestyle around it it has almost every aspect of anxiety and panic recovery covered.

[frankysworld]

I just want it all to go away I just want to feel normal again for one day

[markanthony]

I want to be normal again. Everyday i feel that somethings wrong with me. A lot of pain and fear 😢

[foxc]

Just knowing these crazy sensations are ‘normal’ with anxiety makes me calm down when I am feeling it get bad. Thank you so much I swear this channel has helped save me

[paigepratt]

Does anyone’s neck and chest feel so tight and it’s difficult to breathe, like you can feel yourself struggling? I’ve been dealing with this constantly for the past week

[DiegoSeb]

I realized today how my body and mind is so used to tension and stress, that keeps me anxious all day. I went for a massage in the morning, specific to relax the muscles in my back, neck and head. Afterward I felt good, very good actually, but in the afternoon, I found myself at a store watching my mind looking for something, some sensation in my body to be worry about, it couldn't find something so I almost start panicking until I realized that is was my mind trying so hard to find something to worry about.

[bethdavidson]

My anxiety makes my neck hurt and it also goes into my chest muscles as well

[lewiscroll]

Does anyone’s rib cage/chest muscles constantly ache? No pain, just ache all day!! It’s so annoying, it feels like it will never go away

[sirenfan]

I feel this everyday! I believe I was subconsciously stressed about the COVID-19 pandemic and it has brought on this horrible feeling. I have the bad habit of googling symptoms and that only makes it worse. But I realized it lessens of I keep my self busy.

[branflakes]

Thank you for this. I often feel weak or shaky and even the muscles in my face feel weird. I fear the worst and don't even consider the fact that I spend my entire day super tense with my shoulders all the way up past my ears.

[Anonymous]

To be 100% honest, I have absolute NO IDEA why I’m experiencing anxiety. I have NOTHING to be anxious about lmao. I’m a straight A student, yes I do a lot of homework but I love it! I like seeing the results. The 100’s on exams, the constant grind of homework and knocking off check boxes on my checklist. I’m trying to transfer to a major university, major in economics/finance, go to Wall Street, then once I have a few years of work experience, I’m gonna start applying to Wharton, Stanford, or Harvard for my MBA. After that, I wanna launch a hedge fund on Wall Street, and maybe eventually, I’ll run for office, depending on what’s going on at that time in the country. So ya, there’s some high goals and high standards, and yes my future career is gonna be VERY intense, but that’s how I roll baby! I enjoy stress, I thrive under pressure, and I LOVE hearing people tell me that I’ve overdone myself and that I can’t do something. I’ve always been results driven. I was an all state musician in highschool, I’m an officer of this club and that club, I’m in an honor society, I have nothing less than 95’s, I’m a successful day trader (even during the virus outbreak: don’t even get me started on that) you get my point.
I have good things coming my way if I keep my work up and maintain my mindset. I know this!

But yet, I’m still having constant muscle
tension in my legs as if they’re gonna cramp any second, rapid heart rates, very dry mouth, I’m having shortness of breath (but not necessarily a panic attack but more like not being able to breathe efficiently), I can’t sleep, I’m seeing shadows bolt across my room in the dark (my parents suffer from night terrors and sleep paralysis when they’re stressed so fml) and my feet are practically oceans all the time.

I’m a workaholic but it’s not work to me, I love grinding it out and going to war with exams and assignments and seeing how my work has paid off.

This has NEVER happened to me before because I’ve always been very confident in my abilities. I’ve always been somebody that’s been in situations where the entire world thrown at them and no matter what, they’d push thru and win. And I’m still like this! That hasn’t changed! I’ve never thought that my life is overwhelming or out of control. I’ve never thought that I needed any kind of mental balancing or relaxation. I’ve never been somebody who meditates before a big task. And I’m not making fun those things. Everybody has their own routine and ritual. I know I have mine for sure. But I’ve never experienced this level of anxiety before. I’m not a negative person! I don’t like to think negative thoughts. I don’t worry about my future because I’ve set up my life to be a process instead of a journey. A journey has no direction, you just figure it out as you go. But a process is procedural, step by step by step. I ALWAYS know what my next move is gonna be. Yes, things don’t go according to plan all the time, but that’s ok because I’ve always been able to get back on track and keep the process going, regardless of what happens. I’ve never been scared of the future. In fact, I salivate over the damn future!!!! So idk why tf my body and my head are freaking out! I’ve been much more stressed out before in my life than I am now.

In highschool, band was my world. You audition for Region Phase I and you’re put a room with 30 sax players. There’s 2 rooms, 30 people in each auditioning. You audition and if you do well enough, you advance to Region Phase II where the 2 previous rooms are then combined into 1 room. This room has about 20 people in it auditioning with you, these players are the top players from their respective rooms from Region Phase I. If you place top 8 (or something) out of the room, you have made Region Band. Congrats. Everybody else, sorry, try harder next time. The top 2 from that room end up advancing to the Area auditions. Once you get to Area, you’re put in 1 room with all the top players in their respective Regions. In other words, all the people at Area also placed top 2 in their Region Phase II rooms. So, they’re pretty good players. This room has about 15 saxes auditioning with you. From Area, they take the top 2 to damn intimidating. IF, you make it to State, you’re placed in a room with about 20 people. All these people are the top 2 players in their respective Areas. Unbelievably talented players!

I placed 1st at Region Phase I, 1st at Region Phase II, 1st at Area, and 9th at State. And this is Texas....THAT A’INT EASY!

12 hours of practicing everyday for 4 months.

I’ve been MUCH more stressed than I am now

SEND HELP I CANNOT FIGURE OUT WHATS HAPPENING!

[sparrow]

WOW ..its like you completely narrate my everyday life within 4 mins

[ranablogbyranaghosh]

I’m having my left leg cramp & tingling.

[rothschildianum]

I have never had anxiety thing in my life, always healthy. But two months ago, I started having this problem, and now I can understand how torturous it is. Thank God that there are so many videos on how to fix this.

[addle-brainedmeerkat]

Dude, this is golden. The written description in this video has literally summarized my state over the couple of last years, but have never been able to express. The way you have written it makes it so much more senseable, specially trying to explain to others.

[aldeencalangi]

I CAME OUT OF ANXIETY NOT BY MEDICINES OR EXERCISE. I FOCUS ON MY MENTAL STRENGTH AND I FOCUS ON EVERYTHING THATS HAPPENING IS JUST CAUSE OF ANXIETY, I HAVE BEEN HERE MULTIPLE TIMES AND HERE I AM STILL ALIVE AND I PRAY THAT EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO ME ITS GOD'S WILL. SINCE THEN I FEEL VERY MORE RELAX BUT SOMETIMES T COMES BACK BUT I CAN HANDLE IT NOW BETTER

[EricG]

My tension in my upper back and neck actually cause vision problems, balance problems and my face to go numb. It’s absolutely awful. 😞

[andyjugon]

I'm at that state of worry all the time that another panic attacks is on the way, or that it's a heart attack or something. The fear is awful constantly thinking about what's hurts, why it hurts, if it is something dangerous, will it kill me, then the thought of the inevitable death we will all have. Then when I'm so anxious the depersonalization hits, I feel like I'm going to go crazy or lose my mind like things are in real and all I want to do is either run or hide but without being able to do so because it's my own mind causing the problem. I used too be so productive, I worked 3 jobs, was going to collage, and used the rest of my time to be with friends/ family, or doing my hobbies. But now just doing one of these things can become overwhelming. As an analogy I feel like I was able to control my life like a well maintained racecar but not it feels like the tires have gone flat and I'm low on gas.

[Elitevolkswagens]

I can feel tension suddenly in my arms, legs, back and shoulders it makes me feel like the go stiff and weak… it then triggers more panic attacks 😢😢

[mohanaeimi]

You have no idea how BIG your videos about anxiety helped me to get through the symptoms. Thank you so much for that.

[angelbillington]

I am only 14 years old and suffer with all sorts of anxiety it's so tiring even after the doctor telling me my aches and pains are from tension and anxiety it is so stressful as I am so young watching these videos make me feel so much better and calm in my body but during or after an anxiety attack my body feels like pain and tingling