Hormones and Hormonal Changes

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.
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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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