What are the physical symptoms of anxiety? (And how they can benefit you)

Anxiety can show up in many different ways, including in our body. Often our mind and body don’t share information, so we miss the early signs that we are getting anxious.

In this week’s Youtube video I talk about some of the physical symptoms of anxiety and how to use those symptoms to reduce your anxiety.

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This video is made for educational purposes only and is not intended to replace medical advice.

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[peterwu]

I have leg muscle pain and it's all over my lower body... I went to the doctor, nothing wrong. It also came on a few times directly in relation to a stressful event. Seems leg pain is my chronic anxiety symptom. Hope everyone who sees this is recovering and finding comfort and joy in their lives. God bless each one.

[mattstocks]

I’ve only ever had anxiety when I stoppped drinking and that gave me all the physical symptoms of anxiety. I detoxed and now feel fine but I now understand what folks with anxiety go through oftentimes on the daily. Praying for yall cos those symptoms were quite uncomfortable !

[mroolel]

Fr Natasha whenever I have a panic attack I watch u and it helps me so so much I just love watching u it’s so relieving

[ocdandanxiety]

Great work Natasha! Super important to talk about!

[darashininger]

Hi Natasha! Thanks for making videos for everyone! Can you possibly do a video on how to stop getting nervous during thunderstorms? I usually get nervous or anxious especially during night. I live in the Midwest so I can’t really avoid this 😅 thank you so much have a wonderful day :)

[nikibarooni]

hiii, I feel super safe, thank you 💗

[dancingram]

I did not know my anxiety symtoms until recently.
I get a feeling of overwhelm, I have a much harder time processing information. Even simple things. Irritability and I become hyper vigilant at the same time. Dry mouth, cold sweat, cold fingers and feet, even a tingling sensation. Nausea, sometimes vomiting.
I can get sudden feber back and neck pain. I am often tense, but I am usually not aware of it and dizziness.

[poisoneddreams]

Nausea, dizziness, repetitive motions like licking my lips, brushing my hand through my hair, tapping fingers/toes

[Mr._Du]

I have experience doing lots of cardio and weight training both on and off anxiety meds. From my own experience, I recover *much* better from exercise with medication. I think it's due to better sleep and lower baseline cortisol. Anxiety makes me feel like I'm *always* training and never recovering, always exhausted.

[princesssarah]

Hi i have a fear of death and i am only 13 everything i do is dose not seem to be working, and its really making me annoyed of myself, i am always worrying and i am trying to gain weight and my worrying is not helping, please if you do some videos of trying to gain weight and overcoming the fear of death

[leunrrs]

Please help iv had anxiety and depression for 40 yrs it comes and goes my dad was found dead at home 3 months ago and its started my anxiety and depression off I feel so sad xxx

[aurorasaucedo]

I had a similar situation occur with my 4 yo daughter yesterday. We went on a play date to a small splash pad and she was afraid to try something new. About 30 minutes into the play date she started crying about stomach pain. We left and once we were home and laying down stomach pain was completely gone. Is there anything that can help alleviate these symptoms when they arise?

[lizgil]

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Hi Natasha, I have so many symptoms going on and wonder if these are anxiety symptoms. I suffer from shock like sensation on my head, sometimes my back and hips. I also get episodes of numbness, muscle weakness, back pain, nerve pain, nausea, headaches, knee pain and burning feeling in my body along with back pain. Some symptoms happen at the same time, others go and come it’s draining. I’ve developed severe health anxiety over all of this and symptoms are getting worse 😔 I’ve had MRI, lab work, and things look normal. Could all these symptoms be due to anxiety? It’s so draining to have to deal with this every day.

[maryhines]

I get muscle tension and rib pain and tight breathing

[YesWordsAreAmazing]

Is getting random aches and pains in your foot or ankle a possible symptom of anxiety physically affecting you?

[ianshilling]

I get headache and burning eyes have numbness in arms legs hands and feet and lips I got a haital hernia think that could be causing problems also type 2 diabetes and a large prostate.

[MashaM]

Hi Natasha I’m Sophia and I’m 9 and my symptoms are it gets hard to breathe, nausea, diarrhea, stomachache, and my throat hurts and some more so I’ve been kinda scared that I’m sick and when my mom gives me melatonin my throat stings kinda so that’s it

[weqlcge]

natasha your videos are really good but im awakeat 2 am and im scared

[jeffsframe]

But Natasha, isn’t the anxiety also very much initiated in the body which the brain then says “ oh, something’s wrong, we must be anxious” which then feeds back to the body. It’s a loop don’t you think ?
Couldn’t we treat anxiety by treating the body …ie: meditation etc
A calm body produces a calm mind.
I thought it was you who suggested that 😁

[katiejovel]

Can you do a video on how to cope with anxiety on the first day of school?