panic disorder – COURAGE COACHING

Anxiety can affect our body in so many ways that sometimes it is very hard to differentiate between anxiety or something much more serious.Some symptoms are exactly the same as symptoms caused by more serious health problems, so how do we tell the difference?

It is usually helpful to get check ups with a doctor to rule out anything more serious but most of the time, a doctor can tell you if what you are experiencing is caused by anxiety.

The below symptoms were directly sourced from: www.anxietycentre.com This website is the most helpful and detailed website out there regarding anxiety, that I have recommended to clients, those suffering from an anxiety disorder & also therapists.

This would be useful, to anybody out there who suffers with Generalised Anxiety, OCD, phobias, panic disorder, PTSD, CPTSD & Social Anxiety.

This website, helped me identify a lot of my own anxiety symptoms several years ago, when I was in a constant state of hyperarousal and anxiety. Shortly after this period, I was diagnosed with Complex PTSD, which finally gave me more insight into my condition.

The symptoms list on this website, were very validating for me at a time that I literally felt like I was going crazy with anxiety.

I personally have experienced the following symptoms, in addition to the most well-known symptoms that most people know about.

Eye problems, vision symptoms
Eyes sensitive to light
Tingling & numbness in arms
Frequent urination
Bad taste in the mouth and anxiety
A tinny, metallic, or ammonia, or unusual smell or taste
Depersonalization
Derealization
Brain fog
Tremors

Which of these symptoms have you experienced from your anxiety disorder?

Below is a detailed list of all the symptoms associated with an anxiety disorder. Did you ever think there were this many?

Body Anxiety Symptoms:

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
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 tinging 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
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
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
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
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

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 sit near exits

Head Anxiety Symptoms (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

Heart Anxiety Symptoms (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

Mind Anxiety Symptoms (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
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 (associated with mood, emotions, and feelings):

Always feeling angry and lack of patience
Chronic Fatigue Anxiety Symptom, Syndrome
Depersonalization
Depression
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
Underlying anxiety, apprehension, or fear
You feel like you are under pressure all the time

Mouth, Voice, Stomach, and Digestive System Anxiety Symptoms (associated with 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
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
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

Skin Anxiety Symptoms (anxiety symptoms associated with 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 problems, infections, rashes

Sleep Anxiety Symptoms (anxiety symptoms 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 (anxiety symptoms 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
Spots in the vision
Flashing lights when eyes are closed
Your depth perception feels wrong