What is the biggest problem with telling people that their symptoms are from anxiety or stress? SIMPLE – they don’t believe you. It is easier for them to believe that these symptoms are from a dreaded disease lke MS, Fibromylagia, Lupus and much more. After all the symptoms are very similar. Anxiety and stress can cause stomach upset, it can cause your muscles to ripple, flex and be tense on their own. Anxiety when left untreated can escalate to hundreds of symptoms that can be present together in groups or they can be presented one at a time.
The problem that people have is that they don’t understand that their is very distinct physical connection between the mind and the body. This does not make our body weak or inefficient. These symptoms were designed as part of the fight or flight syndrome. Fight or flight was designed to save our life in very specific situations. Hormones, similar to steriods are released inside our body to make us stronger, faster, fleeter and even split second quick with our thoughts. There is a downside. The downside is that if we stay in the stress or highly intense state then these hormones build up in the body and actuall become somewhat toxic to us. The result is a body in a stress reflex, that never calms down and guess what – those same hormones that were so incredible for saving our life are now causing us to have pretty bad aches and pains, and they are causing us to think in even more negative ways.
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Symptoms of stress and anxiety can include:
pain in hands, pain in feet, pain in the muscles anywhere on the body, tingling in hands, fingers, feet, arms, as well as scalp tingling, scalp itching, skin ithcing all over the body and especially in the middle of the back. For men there can be terrible prostate pain that is often diagnosed as prostatitis but there is no infection. For women anxiety and stress can cause symptoms of cystitis but there is no infection. These are just a few of the symptoms of stress or anxiety that manifest into physical symptoms all over the body.
