Physical Symptoms of Anxiety Attacks Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms
What are the physical symptoms of anxiety attacks? People with eating disorders often experience anxiety attack symptoms. Knowing if it's an anxiety attack symptom often helps people calm down for the simple reason that you realize you're not having a heart attack.
If you have questions about what is anxiety, please read that article first.
Anxiety attack symptoms often come along with anorexia symptoms and bulimia nervosa. It is one of those mental health issues that is commonly found in people with eating disorders, and even often the anxiety symptoms precede the development of an eating disorder.
Anxiety Disorder Symptoms
You can feel some or all of these anxiety disorder symptoms. If you do experience an anxiety attack symptom, be sure to get checked out by your doctor to make sure there is nothing more serious going on. Often these symptoms do feel like you're having a heart attack. And since eating disorder predispose you to having heart attacks, always check with a doctor to be sure. The first time you feel symptoms, get checked out!
You could feel:
dizzy
confused
a sense of warmth moving through your body
hot
weak
tired
shaky
heavy, shallow breathing (hyperventilation)
sweaty
racing thoughts
tight muscles / tension
dry mouth
queezy stomach (butterflies)
like your heart is beating out of your chest
like your heart is skipping a beat
tightness in your chest
like you can't breathe
like you can't catch your breath
like you're choking
can't sit still
irritable
difficult to sleep
hands tremble or shake
If you have some of these symptoms, you could be experiencing physical symptoms of anxiety attacks. You should see your doctor to be sure.
