Hormones and Hormonal Changes

Written by: Jim Folk.
Medically reviewed by: Marilyn Folk, BScN.
Last updated: August 14, 2020

Hormones affect the body in many ways. A change in hormones can cause many anxiety-like symptoms, as well as aggravate existing anxiety disorder symptoms.

For instance, hormones can change due to:

Puberty
Pregnancy
Monthly menstruation cycle
Perimenopause, menopause, postmenopause
Age
Medical conditions
Medical treatment
Medication
Stress
Poor diet
Overweight
Allergies
Exposure to environmental toxins and chemicals

To name a few.

Consequently, it’s wise to discuss all new, changing, persistent, and returning symptoms with your doctor to ensure they are solely anxiety- and stress-related and not being caused by hormonal fluctuations.

If some of your anxiety symptoms are being caused or aggravated by hormonal changes, addressing the cause with your doctor could alleviate the anxiety-like symptoms, as well as stop aggravating your existing anxiety disorder symptoms.

Common Anxiety Symptoms

The combination of good self-help information and working with an experienced anxiety disorder therapist is the most effective way to address anxiety disorder and its many symptoms. Until the core causes of anxiety are addressed - the underlying factors that motivate apprehensive behavior - a struggle with anxiety disorder can return again and again. Identifying and successfully addressing anxiety's underlying factors is the best way to overcome problematic anxiety.

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