Every human being expresses their feelings and emotions with individuality. Those who tend to speak out their concerns are less prone to anxiety since letting it out helps reduce fear from their consciousness. However, those who have a harder time doing so at some point in their lives will need to express, but do they really?
In order to protect itself from self-destruction, our body establishes boundaries as to how much stress is too much, and it does so by transmuting our emotional pain into physical pain. Those symptoms are there telling us that there is something that requires our attention and essentially needs to be "fixed". Acceptance is a good way of letting go of whatever is bothering us, although it may not be sufficient in all cases, and that's when a change may be necessary. If we let it sit on the back burner for too long symptoms can become unbearable and unmanageable. Physical symptoms from anxiety are painful and should not be ignored. They demand our undivided attention.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is recognized as the widest type of anxiety disorder. It may consists of fears or phobias causing us to feel anxious, but fundamentally it is the act of excessive worrying. As we know worrying is quite normal, but worrying every day and for a prolonged amount of time, even months, then becomes a disorder. The thoughts will insist on coming, and no matter how much attention we seem to give them they just keep coming. But why?
We find that each worrying thought is attached to something or a someone in specific; a family member, a goal, a dream, a job or career, or it can even be a negative reflection of ourselves. These clutters, aka fear, anger, grief, shame, resentfulness, inferior, unwanted, betrayed and annoyed just to name a few, can cause us to think irrationally, behave impulsively, and ultimately cause major dysfunction at work, at home or anywhere, really. In some cases it can even lead to self-destructive thinking and behaviors.
A person dealing with this GAD can end up with a vast of physical and non-physical symptoms. Here are some of the side-effects to this disorder:
- Afraid of falling asleep or staying asleep;
- Back, neck or shoulder pain;
- Bad posture;
- Chest pain or discomfort;
- Chills or hot flashes;
- Chronic fatigue;
- De-realization or de-personalization;
- Desire to be left alone;
- Difficulty breathing or shorten of breath;
- Difficulty concentrating;
- Difficulty speaking or expressing
- Dizziness, light-headed or fainting;
- Dry or dull skin and hair;
- Excessive oily skin;
- Fear of losing control;
- Feeling of choking;
- Fogginess or blurred vision;
- Hair loss;
- Irritability or easily provoked;
- Low self-esteem or self-confidence;
- Muscle tension;
- Nausea or abdominal distress;
- Palpitations or increased heart rate;
- Racing mind;
- Self-destructive thoughts;
- Sensitivity to abrupt movement, light or noise
- Smothering;
- Social phobia;
- Sudden waking during sleep;
- Sweating;
- Tingling or numbness in fingers or legs;
- Trembling or shaking; and
- Unsteadiness.
The list is quite long and not complete, but from experience these are a possible manifestations of the body. If you find you or someone you know is experiencing one or multiple of the above symptoms on a persistent manner, it is strongly recommended to consult with a doctor. Sadly, potentially from lack of knowledge some people choose to ignore, or let stigma interfere with obtaining help, such as medical or therapeutic treatments.
In the meantime, one quick and hopefully effective way to reduce these pains is to look at what could be the main contributing factor. It is likely that more than one circumstance are contributors. It's up to the individual to decide on what that may be since it would be hard for someone else to make that choice for them, especially if there were no diagnosis prior to. Doing so could be extremely liberating, provide a sense of relief, or conceivably stop symptoms from coming back. It's definitely a good start.
We should all know that full recovery is possible with the right treatment and discipline, no matter how far back it all may seem.
Let's stop ignoring, and instead let's ignore stigma. Recovery is closer than we think :)
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