Body Zaps , Electric Jolt Feeling In Body, Intense Body Tremors or Body Shakes – anxiety symptoms

Medically reviewed by Marilyn Folk, BScN.

Last updated March 27, 2021

Body zaps

It feels as if you experienced a sudden strong zap, tremor, vibration, or jolt in your body.
You also may feel like your body just received an electrical jolt or zap. While it wasn’t burning or hot, your body jolted or experienced an intense tremor for a moment. Others describe it as having a sudden intense “body shake.”

This symptom can affect one part of the body, many parts of the body, or the entire body. It can occur rarely, occassionally, or persistently.

For a more complete explanation, see our body jolts anxiety symptoms.

Chapter 9 in the Recovery Support area of our website is our Anxiety Symptoms chapter. We list all of the symptoms commonly associated with anxiety disorder in this chapter, including the anxiety symptom body zaps.

Each symptom listed there contains a complete description of what the symptom feels like and how others describe it, we explain why each symptom occurs, we provide natural and practical ways you can eliminate each symptom, and how common each symptom is (the percentage of people who experience it).

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