Anxiety Disorders: Symptoms, Descriptions, Causes, How To Stop Them

There are over 100 anxiety symptoms and signs for anxiety, anxiety attacks (panic attacks), and other anxiety disorders, including Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and phobias.

The following are some of the anxiety symptoms associated with anxiety disorder:

• Numbness and tingling
• Dizziness
• Chest pain
• Headaches
• Neck tension
• Stomach upset, nervous stomach
• Pulsing in the ear
• Burning skin
• Fear of impending doom
• Nausea
• Shortness of breath
• Electric shock feeling
• Shooting pains in the face
• Heart palpitations
• Weakness in legs
• Feeling like you are going crazy
• Inability to rest
• Sleep problems

There are a great many more anxiety symptoms. For a comprehensive list of anxiety symptoms with descriptions, including severe anxiety symptoms, see below.

What is anxiety?

Anxiety is defined as:

• A state of uneasiness, apprehension; as about future uncertainties.
• A state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event or situation, often impairing physical and psychological functioning.

In other words, anxiety occurs when we behave (think and act) in an apprehensive manner, such as when worrying about an event or situation.

With this in mind, anxiety is not a force or 'thing' in itself. It's a state of uneasiness that results when we worry. More about this in a moment.

Because imagining the future in an apprehensive manner is a behavior, it's not caused by a biological, chemical, or genetic problem with the brain. Anxiety results from a certain style of behavior.

Visit our 'anxiety' page for additional information.

What is anxiety disorder?

Everyone experiences anxiety from time to time. This is normal. This is why anxiety is not a medical, biological, chemical, or genetic problem.

Anxiety turns into a 'disorder' - disruption to normal functioning - when anxiety and its sensations and symptoms interfere with a normal lifestyle.

It's important to keep in mind that anxiety disorder should NOT be equated with a medical condition or serious mental illness (when there is a medical, biological, chemical, or genetic cause). Unfortunately, the term mental illness is used to refer to any problem caused by behaving in an abnormal way (what is considered to be outside of the 'norm'). All of us have behaviors that fall outside of the norm, which is why all of us could be categorized as having some type of mental illness.

While you may have or have been diagnosed as having anxiety disorder, this means you have overly anxious behaviors (tendencies). It doesn't mean you are somehow mentally deficient or have something medically, biologically, chemically, or genetically wrong.

Visit our anxiety disorder page for additional information.

If anxiety disorder isn't a medical, biological, chemical, or genetic problem, why does anxiety cause symptoms? That's next.

What are anxiety symptoms?

Behaving in an overly apprehensive manner creates the physiological, psychological, and emotional state of anxiety. Anxiety activates the stress response, which stresses the body. A body that becomes overly stressed can exhibit symptoms of stress.

So anxiety symptoms are actually symptoms of stress. They are called anxiety symptoms because behaving apprehensively is the main source of the stress that overly stresses the body, which then, causes the body to exhibit symptoms.

Because each body is somewhat chemically unique, the type, number, intensity, duration, and frequency of anxiety symptoms will vary from person to person. For example, one person might have just one mild or a few anxiety symptoms, whereas another person might have all anxiety symptoms and to great severity. All combinations and variations are common.

Chapter 9 in the member's area of our website is our anxiety Symptoms Section. Chapter 9 includes all symptoms (not just the symptoms listed below), including in depth descriptions about how each symptom feels, what causes it, what you can do to alleviate it, and how prevalent each symptom is (the percentage of people who experience each symptom).

Are anxiety disorder symptoms different from anxiety symptoms?

No. Anxiety disorder symptoms and anxiety symptoms are the same. The only difference between the two would be, as anxiety and its persistence increases, so will the number, type, intensity, frequency, and duration of anxiety symptoms increase. Otherwise, they are one and the same.

Anxiety symptoms in women and men

The majority of anxiety symptoms in women and men are similar, but there are some anxiety symptoms differences.

For example, anxiety causes stress hormones to enter the bloodstream where they travel to targeted spots in the body to bring about specific emergency response changes. These changes prepare the body for immediate action.

Since stress hormones affect other hormones, women can experience a wide range of sensations and symptoms due to how stress hormones affect the hormones that affect the female menstruation cycle. Many women experience increases in anxiety related symptoms in association with their monthly cycle.

Women can also experience an increase in symptoms due to the biological changes of pregnancy, postpartum recovery, and menopause.

Women are also more emotionally-centered than men, so their anxiety symptoms can seem more numerous and daunting.

Men also have challenges, as stress hormones also affect male hormones. Men who are more emotionally-centered can also struggle more with anxiety symptoms.

For additional information, see our anxiety symptoms list below.

Panic Attack Disorder (PAD) - which is the same as Anxiety Attacks

Anxiety attacks, also referred to as panic attacks, are episodes of high intensity fear and anxiety. Panic attacks often occur suddenly and 'out of the blue.' Sometimes the cause of a panic attack is obvious, such as when you feel in immediate danger with no escape. But at other times, panic attacks can seem to occur without reason.

Panic attacks and their symptoms can last from just a few moments to hours. During the attack, most people feel an incredible amount of fear, trepidation, and foreboding, which is often accompanied by a strong urge to escape, a feeling that you are about to lose control, and for many, that they may even die.

The feelings, sensations, and symptoms that accompany a panic attack can be so strong that just the thought of having another one creates strong anxiety.

There is no question, panic attacks can be strong physiological, psychological, and emotional experiences, which is why many people fear them.

Panic Attack symptoms include:

• intense feeling of doom and gloom
• racing heart
• lightheadedness
• heart palpitations
• sweating
• nervous stomach
• trembling
• feeling like you are about to lose control
• feeling like you are about to go crazy
• feeling overwhelmed
• sudden and strong urge to escape
• heightened fear and apprehension
• increased stimulation
• pins and needles
• throat tightness
• muscle weakness
• weak in the knees
• super sensitive senses and nerves

To name a few symptoms.

You can visit our anxiety attacks and panic attacks pages for additional information.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

All of us are anxious from time to time. And many of us have some things we worry about. People who experience generalized anxiety, however, worry about many things, frequently, and to a great degree. Years ago, people who experienced generalized anxiety disorder were said to be worrywarts.

Generalized anxiety disorder doesn't mean your anxiety is worse than other types, but that you worry about more things and more often.

Generalized anxiety disorder also doesn't mean there is something medically, biologically, chemically, or genetically wrong. It means you haven't learned healthy ways of dealing with adversity, uncertainty, and risk. So, you worry!

Generalized anxiety symptoms:

• a general feeling of uneasiness
• persistently being on alert for danger
• persistent worry
• an overly cautious approach to life
• a persistent feeling of being unsafe
• overly reactive to things that you perceive could be threatening
• many of the physical, psychological, and emotional symptoms of anxiety

Plus many more symptoms.

Visit our Generalized Anxiety Disorder page for additional information.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Obsessive compulsive disorder is described as having unwanted thoughts and actions that seem difficult to impossible to stop. While many people worry, those who experience obsessive compulsive disorder feel they can't stop worrying, or if they do, something bad will happen.

Obsessive compulsive disorder doesn't mean you have something medically, biologically, chemically, or genetically wrong, but that you haven’t learned to make yourself feel safe 'on the inside.' As a result, you worry or perform rituals to try and make yourself feel safe.

An example of this is thinking that if you do a certain ritual enough times, you'll be safe. Common rituals include touching things enough times, counting things enough times, and doing things enough times and to the point of where you 'feel' everything is going to be okay.

Coping styles are learned. OCD is an example of an unhealthy coping style.

OCD symptoms:

• relentless worry
• underlying fear
• an underlying sense of danger
• inability to self-soothe
• nervousness
• agitation
• sleep issues
• and many of anxiety's physiological, psychological, and emotional symptoms

And many more symptoms.

Visit our Obsessive Compulsive Disorder page for more information.

Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)

Social Anxiety Disorder is described as being overly anxious in social situations. It's not that social anxiety disorder sufferers are afraid of people, but of what people might think of them and/or how those people might react. Fear of rejection is a major concern for the socially anxious.

Socially anxious people generally struggle with self-esteem and self-worth issues. Social phobia is another term often used to describe social anxiety.

SAD symptoms:

• nervousness around people who are deemed to be important
• overly concerned about what people think
• overly concerned about how people might react
• hyper sensitive to rejection
• overly sensitive to criticism
• overly critical of others
• and many of anxiety's physiological, psychological, and emotional symptoms

There are many more symptoms.

Visit our Social Anxiety Disorder page for more information.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is characterized as having strong anxious and distressing reactions to a past traumatic event. The memories, flashbacks, nightmares, and night terrors of the event can be so vivid that they provoke seemingly uncontrollable anxious reactions and symptoms. Many people who struggle with PTSD feel helpless to eliminate the negative memories, flashbacks, nightmares, and night terrors and the strong reactions and symptoms that accompany them.

Some people say that having PTSD is similar to having panic attacks 24/7 and feeling there is nothing you can do to stop them.

PTSD symptoms:

• reoccurring memories, flashbacks, and nightmares that seem unstoppable
• on going anxiety and worry
• underlying fear and trepidation
• persistently feeling unsafe and at risk
• avoiding situations that remind you of the event
• avoiding situations that are associated with reminders and the event itself
• overly vigilant in uncertain situations
• avoiding others
• a persistent internal struggle
• and many of anxiety's physiological, psychological, and emotional symptoms

Plus many more symptoms.

For additional information, visit our Post Traumatic Stress Disorder page.

Phobias

Everyone is afraid of something. Phobias, however, are extreme fears that seem unusually strong and encompassing. A fear of heights, small spaces, dogs, snakes, spiders, being trapped with no exists, and flying are common phobias.

Phobia symptoms:

• overly afraid of a person, object, situation, or circumstance
• heightened sense of danger near your feared subject
• persistent worry and/or concern about your feared subject
• and many of anxiety's physiological, psychological, and emotional symptoms

There are many more symptoms of phobias.

Visit our Phobias page for additional information.

Anxiety treatment

There are many anxiety treatment options. Research has found that the most effective treatment for anxiety disorder is the combination of good self-help information, support, and personal coaching/therapy (often referred to as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy).[1] This is particularly effective when delivered by coaches/therapists who have personally experienced and have successfully overcome anxiety disorder and anxiety symptoms in their own lives.

Having personally experienced and successfully overcome anxiety disorder and anxiety symptoms means not only do they understand your struggle and how anxiety symptoms feel and can impact a person's life but that they also know how to treat anxiety unwellness and its symptoms. This personal experience is a valuable asset in the anxiety disorder recovery process, including treating symptoms.[2]

Visit our Anxiety Therapy page for information about how our coaching/therapy option works and the many coaches/therapists available.

Did you know that treating anxiety symptoms is not all there is to addressing anxiety disorder? Click here for more information about the Two Levels of Anxiety Disorder Recovery.

For information about anxiety, its symptoms, and its treatment, see our Anxiety 101 section.

Anxiety symptoms listing:

Anxiety, no matter the type, affects the body the same way. As a result, the following anxiety symptoms can occur with any type of anxiety disorder. The type, number, intensity, duration, and frequency of anxiety symptoms is generally determined by the degree of anxiety experienced.

Anxiety Symptoms

For information about anxiety symptoms, click on any of the symptoms of anxiety links below where available.

Body Anxiety Symptoms (symptoms of anxiety associated with the body in general):

• Allergies and Anxiety; Allergy Problems, increase in allergies (number, sensitivity, reactions, lengthier reactions)
• Anxiety cough
• Anxiety Attack Symptoms and signs
• Asthma and anxiety
• Back pain, stiffness, tension, pressure, soreness, spasms, immobility in the back or back muscles
• Blanching (looking pale, loss of color in the face or skin)
• Blushing, turning red, flushed face, flushed skin, blushing, red face or skin
• Body aches, parts of or your entire body feels sore and achy, feels like your body and muscles are bruised
• Body jolts
• Body zaps
• Body shakes
• Body trembling, shaking, anxiety symptoms
• Body tremors
• Body temperature increase or decrease, change in body temperature
• Brain zaps
• Burning skin, itchy, crawly, prickly or other skin sensations, skin sensitivity, numbness on the skin
• Burning skin sensation on the face, neck, ears, scalp, or shoulders
• Buzzing sensation in the feet, toes, hands, fingers, arms, legs
• Chest pain anxiety symptoms
• Chest pains anxiety symptoms
• Chest tightness feeling
• Choking
• Choking feeling in throat
• Chronic Fatigue, exhaustion, super tired, worn out
• Chronic pain and anxiety
• Clumsiness, feeling clumsy, co-ordination problems with the limbs or body
• Cold chills, feeling cold all the time
• Cold flashes, flash
• Cold hands and feet
• Craving sugar, sweets, chocolate, usual craving for sugar and sweets
• Crazy thoughts
• Difficulty speaking, moving mouth, talking, co-ordination problems with the mouth or tongue
• Dizziness, feeling lightheaded, dizzy, feeling dizzy
• Electric shock feeling, body zaps
• Excess of energy, you feel you can't relax
• Falling dropping sensation
• Feeling faint
• Feel ill and sick, yet can't describe how you feel but that you feel ill in some way
• Feel like you are going to pass out
• Feel cold, chilly, cold all the time
• Feel wrong, different, foreign, odd, or strange
• Feels like floor is moving, swaying
• Flu-like symptoms, feel sick or ill, feel like you are coming down with the flu
• Flushed face, red face, flushed skin
• Frequent urination
• Frequent urination at night
• Frequent urination in men
• Hair loss, hair is thinning, or clumps of hair are falling out, balding
• Headaches, migraine headaches, anxiety headaches
• Head and Brain Zaps
• Head and brain zaps - medication causes
• Heart palpitations, racing heart
• Hot flash, flashes
• Hyperactivity, excess energy, nervous energy
• Hypersensitivity; super sensitive nerves, hearing, touch, tastes
• Increased or decreased sex drive
• Infection - increased infections, persistent infection
• Itchy, Tingling, Crawling, Pins and Needles, Prickly Feelings under the skin or anywhere inside or deep inside the body
• Motion sickness feeling
• Mouth or throat clicking or grating sound/noise when you move your mouth or jaw, such as when talking
• Muscle tension, stiffness, aches, pains
• Muscles that vibrate, jitter, tremor, or shake when used
• Muscle twitching
• Muscle weakness
• Nausea
• Nausea vomiting
• Neck, back, shoulder tension and stiffness
• Neck tension
• Nervous cough
• Night sweats, waking up in a sweat, profusely sweating at night, anxiety night sweats
• No energy, feeling lethargic, tired, exhausted, chronic fatigue
• Numb tingling hands
• Numbness
• Numbness tingling, numbness and tingling
• Numbness and tingling fingers
• Numbness and tingling, and other skin sensations on hands, feet, face, head, or any other places on the body
• Overly sensitive nerves anywhere on or in the body, overly sensitive nerves to the touch
• Panic attack disorder symptoms
• Pins and needles: all over, in the hands and feet, fingers, left arm, etc.
• Pounding heart, heart feels like it is beating too hard
• Pulsing or throbbing muscles. Pulsing or throbbing sensation
• Racing heart, heart palpitations
• Red skin, skin looks like or is turning red
• Restless Leg Syndrome; Anxiety and Restless legs
• Rib or rib cage tightness, pressure, or feeling like a tight band around the rib cage
• Sexual Dysfunction, sexual uninterest
• Shaking anxiety feelings
• Shooting pains anxiety symptoms
• Shooting pains, stabbing pains, and odd pressures in the neck, head, or face
• Shooting pains in the face
• Shooting pains in the scalp or head
• Skipped heart beats
• Sore or tight scalp, headaches, neck tension
• Startle easily
• Sudden urge to escape or run away
• Sweating, profuse, excessive, uncontrollable sweating
• The floor feels like it is moving either down or up, swaying
• Tightness in the ribs or rib cage area, may also feel like a tight band around the ribs or rib cage area.
• Tingling numb hands
• Tingling, tingly, pins and needles sensations - anywhere on the body, including the hands, feet, legs, arms, head, mouth, chest, groin area
• Throat or mouth clicking or grating sound/noise when you move your mouth or jaw, such as when talking
• TMJ
• Trembling, shaking, tremors
• Twitching
• Unsteadiness, dizziness, feeling dizzy or lightheaded
• Urgency to urinate, sudden urge to go to the washroom, sudden urge to pee
• Warm spells
• Weak - feel weak, weakness, low energy, light, soft, like you may faint
• Weak legs, arms, or muscles
• Weak limbs/extremities
• Weight gain; sudden weight gain
• Weight loss; sudden weight loss

Chest Anxiety Symptoms (symptoms of anxiety associated with the chest and chest area):

• Anxiety Chest Tremors feelings symptoms
• Anxiety Cough
• Asthma symptoms and attacks
• Chest pain anxiety symptoms
• Chest tightness anxiety symptoms
• Esophageal spasms
• Heart attack or anxiety attack (panic attack)
• Heart Palpitations
• Feel like you have to force yourself to breathe
• Find it hard to breath, feeling smothered
• Excessive yawning anxiety
• Nervous Cough
• Out of breath anxiety
• Racing Heart
• Rib or rib cage tightness, pressure, or feeling like a tight band around the rib cage
• Shooting chest pains anxiety symptoms
• Shortness of breath
• Short of breath stress symptoms
• Shooting sharp stabbing pains in the chest
• Tightness, pressue, fullness, pain in the chest

Emotions (see mood - anxiety symptoms regarding emotions, mood, and feelings)

Fears Anxiety Symptoms:

• A heightened fear of what people think of you
• Afraid of being trapped in a place with no exits
• Constant feeling of being overwhelmed.
• Fear of being in public
• Fear of dying
• Fear of losing control
• Fear of impending doom
• Fear of making mistakes or making a fool of yourself to others
• Fear of passing out
• Fear that you are losing your mind
• Fears about irrational things, objects, circumstances, or situations
• Fears of going crazy, of dying, of impending doom, of normal things, unusual feelings and emotions, unusually frightening thoughts or feelings
• Feeling afraid all the time
• Heightened self awareness, or self-consciousness
• Need to find nearest washrooms before you can feel comfortable
• Need to seat near exits

Head Anxiety Symptoms (symptoms of anxiety associated with the head):

• Anxiety headaches, migraines headaches
• Brain fog
• Burning, itchy, tight scalp
• Dizziness or light-headedness
• Frequent headaches, migraine headaches
• Feeling like there is a tight band around your head, pressure, tightness
• Hair loss, hair is thinning, or clumps of hair are falling out
• Having a humming, droning, rumbling, throbbing, vibrating-like, hissing, fizzing, or other types of sounds in your head
• Headaches, migraines
• Head, neck or shoulder tightness, stiffness, or pain
• Head zaps, head tremors. brain zaps
• Giddiness
• Numbness
• Numbness tingling, numbness and tingling
• Shooting pains, stabbing pains, and odd pressures in the neck, head, or face
• Shooting pains in the face
• Shooting pains in the scalp or head
• Tingling in Head
• When you close your eyes you feel like are beginning to, or will, float upwards
• Sore jaw that feels like a tooth ache
• TMJ (Temporo-Mandibular Joint) - clenching of the jaw or grinding of the teeth

Hearing & Ear Anxiety Symptoms (symptoms of anxiety involving the ears and hearing):

• Ear popping and ear pressure symptoms
• Feel like there is something stuck in your ear, that your ear canal it plugged or blocked, that there is a pebble in your ear that you can't get out
• Having a humming, droning, rumbling, throbbing, vibrating-like, hissing, fizzing, or other types of sounds in your head
• Low rumbling sounds
• Reduced hearing, frequent or intermittent reduced hearing or deafness in one or both ears
• Ringing in the ears
• Pulsing in the ears, throbbing sound in the ear(s)
• Tickle or itch in your ear that you can't seem to get at
• Tinnitus and Anxiety

Heart Anxiety Symptoms (symptoms of anxiety associated with the heart):

• Chest pain or discomfort
• Chest pains anxiety symptoms
• Concern about the heart
• Find it hard to breath, feeling smothered, shortness of breath
• Frequent yawning to try and catch your breath
• Heart attack or anxiety attack (panic attack)
• Heart Palpitations – beating hard or too fast, rapid heartbeat
• Heart - Irregular heart rhythms, flutters or ‘skipped’ beats, tickle in the chest that makes you cough
• Pounding heart, heart feels like it is beating too hard
• Radiating pain in the left shoulder and arm
• Shooting chest pains
• Shortness of breath
• Stabbing pains in the back, fear heart problem
• Tight band around the chest, fear heart problem

You can find out if you are having a heart attack or anxiety attack (panic attack)

Mind Anxiety Symptoms (symptoms of anxiety associated with the mind and thinking):

• Afraid of everything
• Altered state of reality, consciousness, or universe feeling
• Brain Fog
• Crazy thoughts
• Deja Vu, a feeling like you've done or experienced something before
• Depersonalization
• Derealization
• Desensitization
• Difficulty concentrating, short-term memory loss
• Difficulty speaking
• Difficulty thinking
• Disorientation
• Easily distracted
• Fear of going crazy
• Fear of losing control
• Fear of impending doom
• Feelings of unreality
• Frequent feeling of being overwhelmed, or that there is just too much to handle or do
• Having difficulty concentrating
• Memory loss
• Nightmares, bad dreams
• Obsession about sensations or getting better
• Racing Thoughts / Racing Mind
• Slow motion feeling
• Repetitive thinking or incessant ‘mind chatter’
• Short-term learning impairment, have a hard time learning new information
• Short-term memory impairment, can't remember what I did a few days, hours, or moments ago
• Spaced out feelings, feeling spaced out
• "Stuck" thoughts; thoughts, mental images, concepts, songs, or melodies that 'stick' in your mind and replay over and over again.
• Trapped in your mind feeling
• Underlying anxiety, apprehension, or fear
• You often feel you are carrying the world on your shoulders

Mood Symptoms; Emotion Symptoms (symptoms of anxiety associated with mood, emotions, and feelings):

• Always feeling angry and lack of patience
• Chronic Fatigue Anxiety Symptom, Syndrome
• Depersonalization
• Depression; Feeling Depressed; Low Mood
• Dramatic mood swings
• Emotionally blunted, flat, or numb
• Emotions feel numb; emotionally numb
• Emotional flipping (dramatic mood swings)
• Emotions feel wrong
• Everything is scary, frightening
• Feeling down in the dumps
• Feeling like things are unreal or dreamlike
• Frequently being on edge or 'grouchy'
• Frustration, frustrated, anxiety frustration
• Feel like crying for no apparent reason
• Have no feelings about things you used to
• Irritability, irritated, easily annoyed
• Mood swings
• Not feeling like yourself, detached from loved ones, emotionally numb
• Sudden urge to escape or run away
• Underlying anxiety, apprehension, or fear
• You feel like you are under pressure all the time

Mouth, Voice, Stomach, and Digestive System Anxiety Symptoms (symptoms of anxiety involving the mouth, voice, stomach, and digestive system):

• Bad taste in the mouth and anxiety
• A tinny, metallic, or ammonia, or unusual smell or taste
• Aerophagia (swallowing too much air, stomach distention, belching)
• Burning mouth, feeling like the inside of your mouth is burning, or tingling, or like pins and needles, or all of these together or at different times
• Burping, belching, frequent or excessive burping and belching, gas
• Burning tongue, feeling like your tongue is burning, or tingling, or like pins and needles
• Choking
• Constant craving for sugar or sweets
• Constant lump in the throat feeling
• Constipation
• Diarrhea
• Difficulty swallowing
• Difficulty talking, pronouncing certain letters or sounds, mouth feels like it isn't moving right, slurred speech
• Dry mouth
• Esophageal spasms
• Feeling like you can't swallow properly or that something will get caught in your throat
• Feeling like your tongue is swollen
• IBS
• Lack of appetite, Loss of appetite
• Lump in the throat, tight throat, something stuck in your throat
• Loss of bladder control or bowel control
• Mixing up words when speaking; mixed up words
• Mouth muscles twitching/jumping
• Mouth or throat clicking or grating sound/noise when you move your mouth or jaw, such as when talking
• Nausea
• Nausea vomiting
• Nausea or abdominal stress
• Nervous stomach
• Static, electric charge, tingling, numbness, prickly, unusual pain and sensitivity feelings in the face, mouth, and/or throat
• Stomach upset, gas, belching, bloating
• Teeth grinding
• The thought of eating makes you nauseous
• Tight throat, lump in throat
• Throat or mouth clicking or grating sound/noise when you move your mouth or jaw, such as when talking
• TMJ
• Tongue symptoms - Tingly, stretched, numb, frozen, itchy, crawly, burning, twitching, jumpy, aching, sore, or swollen tongue (when it isn't).
• Urgency to urinate, frequent urination, sudden urge to go to the washroom
• Voice changes: shaky, crackly, raspy, unsteady, hoarseness, broken, cracked, weak, random pitch, uneven tone, loss of voice, etc.
• Vomiting
• Warm burst surge sensation in the stomach

Skin Anxiety Symptoms (symptoms of anxiety involving the skin):

• Burning itching skin (hands, feet, face, lips, etc.)
• Burning skin sensations, skin sensitivity
• Itching burning skin but no rash
• Numbness
• Numbness tingling, numbness and tingling
• Red skin, looks like your skin is red or turning red for no reason
• Skin feels cold, wet
• Skin symptoms (all of them - burning, itchy, crawly, prickly, stinging, biting, cold, hot, a cold wet feeling, a hot steam feeling, pinching, stabbing, electric zap or shock, nerve pain, tickling, numbness, pins and needles, wire brushed feeling, tingling, carpet burn feeling, or other skin sensations, feelings, sensitivities, and symptoms.)
• Skin problems, infections, rashes

Sleep Anxiety Symptoms (symptoms of anxiety associated with sleep and sleep problems):

• Difficulty falling or staying asleep
• Frequent bad, bizarre, or crazy dreams
• Hearing sounds in your head that jolt you awake
• Insomnia, or waking up ill in the middle of the night
• Jolting awake
• Waking up in a panic attack
• You feel worse in the mornings

Sight Anxiety Symptoms (symptoms of anxiety associated with the eyes and sight):

• Distorted, foggy, or blurred vision
• Dry, watery or itchy eyes
• Eye tricks, seeing things our of the corner of your eye that isn't there, stars, flashes
• Eye problems vision symptoms
• Eyes sensitive to light
• Dilated or contracted pupils
• Spots in the vision
• Flashing lights when eyes are closed
• Your depth perception feels wrong

Touch Anxiety Symptoms (symptoms of anxiety associated with the sense of touch):

• Burning skin sensations, skin sensitivity
• Feeling cold or chilled
• Numbness
• Numbness tingling, numbness and tingling
• Pain
• Pins and needles: all over, in the hands and feet, fingers, left arm, etc.

Other anxiety symptoms are often described as: Being like a hypochondriac, muscle twinges, worry all the time, tingles, gagging, tightness in the chest, tongue twitches, shaky, breath lump, heart beat problems, head tingles, itchy tingling in arms and legs, and so many more.

In addition, you might also find yourself worrying compulsively about:

• Having a heart attack
• Having a serious undetected illness
• Dying prematurely
• Going insane or losing your mind
• Suddenly snapping
• Losing it
• Uncontrollably harming yourself or someone you love
• Losing control of your thoughts and actions
• Being embarrassed or making a fool out of yourself
• Losing control
• Fainting in public
• Not breathing properly
• Losing control of reality
• Choking or suffocating
• Being alone

These are some of the more common signs, symptoms, and indications of anxiety. This symptoms list is not exhaustive.

If you would like more in depth information about all anxiety symptoms, including those symptoms that aren't listed or explained above - the Symptoms section (Chapter 9) in the Recovery Support area of our website includes every anxiety symptom, including complete descriptions, explanations, remedies, and the percentage of people who experience it. The Anxiety Symptoms section in the Recovery Support area is the most comprehensive symptoms resource available anywhere today. Click here for more information about our Recovery Support area, including membership options.

For more information about our Anxiety Therapy, Coaching, Counselling progam.

Resources

National Institute of Mental Health - general information

Canadian Mental Health Association - general information

American Psychiatric Association - general disorder information

American Psychological Association - general information

Anxiety UK Helpline - helpline in the UK

Free tests at anxietycentre.com - free anxiety, depression, and stress tests at anxietycentre.com

*REFERENCES:
[1]"CBT can be recommended as a gold standard in the psychotherapeutic treatment of patients with anxiety disorders." - Otte, Christian. "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Anxiety Disorders: Current State of the Evidence." Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience. Les Laboratoires Servier, Dec. 2011. Web. 14 Sept. 2016.

[2]DISCLAIMER: Because each body is somewhat chemically unique, and because each person will have a unique mix of symptoms and underlying factors, recovery results may vary. Variances can occur for many reasons, including due to the severity of the condition, the ability of the person to apply the recovery concepts, and the commitment to making behavioral change.

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Anxiety symptoms can vary in type, number, intensity, during, and frequency with each person having a unique experience with anxiety symptoms.