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7 Most Worrying Things Anxiety Does to Your Body

July 3, 2023 · Mental Health
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There’s generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, which is when you tend to get anxious about most everyday situations. You may also be dealing with GAD if you’re unable to tell when the last time you were in a relaxed mental state was.

Then we have obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, which can cause a person to deal with obsessive, intrusive thoughts that can be very distressing. OCD is also when a person has an overwhelming compulsion or desire to do a routine repeatedly. This could be reflected in their habits, be it folding away clothes, arranging items in a certain way, cleaning or washing hands unnecessarily, etc.

Another form of anxiety is post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, which is caused after a particularly stressful event such as being in a war zone, surviving an attack, a terrible accident, an incident due to a natural disaster, etc.

Then we have phobias that are experienced due to an irrational and excessive fear of a creature, even a place, such as spiders, bees, the dark, fire, tight spaces, heights, and so on.

Last but not least, panic attacks are also a form of anxiety. They cause heightened and irrational anxiety periods accompanied by physical symptoms like sweating, cold hands and feet, heart palpitations, an inability to breathe, etc.

This being said, we’ve rounded up some of the things anxiety does to your body to help you acknowledge them so you can take action as soon as possible. Check this out!

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