What are anxiety symptoms? Anxiety symptoms cover a broad range of of the obvious and non obvious sensations that people would assume to be associated with anxiety. Surprisingly, anxiety symptoms do not just manifest in an emotional response, but often in physical sensations. In reality, the list of symptoms is so vast that the entire book can be dedicated to just this. First and foremost, I would like explain how the body works and communicate to us.
The human body is comprised of eleven systems all of which can cause anxiety symptoms. These body systems include the nervous, endocrine, digestive, respiratory, muscular, skeletal, immune, cardiovascular/circulatory, urinary, reproductive, and integumentary systems.
The nervous system (NS) and endocrine system (ES) are our communicating systems. Essentially, we experience the world internally and externally via these two complex but amazingly designed systems. Simply put, the language they use are hormones and neurotransmitters.
Where Do Anxiety Symptoms Come From?
When (NS) and (ES) are experiencing stimulation they use hormone and neurotransmitters to convey messaging to the body. In the case of a healthy person, this is a natural and positive stream of communication . However, when there is an abundance of stress, the system’s communication response changes. In this case, when a person is subjected to an abundance of anxiety and accumulated stress, the communication system gets cross wired and produces symptoms. Furthermore, this results in an overload causing the sensory data to become disrupted or ‘glitchy’. As a result, our five senses of smell, taste, touch, sight and hearing receive the wrong input and output signals. Similar to a syntax or a logic error in a computer program, the whole organism becomes confused and starts to malfunction. From this point, we can start to experience anxiety symptoms.
Some symptoms include: metallic taste in our mouth, ringing in our ears, light sensitivity or digestion issues. From a physical standpoint people often get aura migraines, tingling, itchy, numbness or burning skin, heart palpitations and pain in various parts of the body including the muscular and skeletal systems. Although this list is not exhaustive it clearly portrays that any system can start to produce odd anxiety related symptoms when overfilled with stress. As this list is not exhaustive, please see the list of other anxiety symptoms (go to list).