In the past few years, I’ve been helping people from across the world deal with problems stemming from anxiety disorders. For a condition that’s supposedly just excessive stress, one cannot help but to be surprised with the amazing range of symptoms that can be experienced, as well as the wide range of causes that add together to source anxiety. For example, many patients have recently been approached me asking if their anxiety might be responsible for causing their seizures. As such, I’ve decided to write this article to help people who have just found this website, who may have similar concerns.
Not to waste time with intricate and potentially confusing technical explanations, the simple answer is that extreme anxiety can induce seizures, in the onset of a panic attack. However, research has pointed out that patients who experience this symptom usually have other conditions such as epilepsy, which are sometimes amplified or triggered in moments of intense anxiousness. In other words, anxiety doesn’t directly cause seizures- but indirectly, it might. As a matter of fact, this type of disorder is known to increase the intensity of several other conditions, as well as manifesting all kinds of unnerving symptoms. As scared as you may be over having these effects, you need to focus on treating the causes of your anxiety rather than worrying so much about its consequences.
Let’s face it, since anxiety is such an overwhelming and complex condition that it can even induce seizures, how could you possibly confront it directly? There’s little you can do against such a powerful and pervasive disorder- but don’t lose hope! There is much you can do to subvert the causes that build up together to source your anxiety, since they are usually simple things that you can directly change. Some common causes of anxiety that can be managed include having a bad nutrition, or leading a sedentary lifestyle; as you can see- these are things that can be simply changed; and doing so will have a very noticeable effect towards helping you manage your inner turmoil.
There are hundreds of other factors that could be sourcing your anxiousness, and it’s up to you (and your therapist, if you have one) to understand the most elusive causes. You may be suffering from unresolved emotional issues, for example; or you may be severely frustrated with your career option, and you may not even be fully aware of it- but the negative repercussions are there, gnawing at your well-being and strengthening your anxiety disorder, making it so powerful that it even induces seizures. But once take the time and effort to know yourself and know what the sources of your anxiety are then you can start taking action to change those circumstances. And having done so, all the negative effects of anxiety will gradually subside, and the influence it holds over your life will tend to fade as well.
