Despite being categorized as a range of psychological sicknesses, anxiety disorders can influence the entire body, as well as the mind and emotions of the affected individuals. It’s actually very common for anxiety patients to experience numbness, loss of sensation, muscle weakness and even complete paralysis, in extreme cases. If you can relate with these unpleasant sensations, this article will provide you with some comfort, as well as showing you a simple trick you can use to start managing your condition.
Before doing anything else, you should clearly understand how anxiety works, since that will make it easier to deal with its effects. You see, your anxiety draws energy from your stress and worries, and it uses that energy to magnify the very reasons why you felt worried and stressed in the first place. For example, let’s suppose you start feeling a mild tingling sensation; if you didn’t fixate on that sensation, it might be of no effect, and it would probably fade quickly. However, if you get caught up in the tides of anxiety over that tingling, the sensation will tend to escalate. If you cannot find a way to interrupt this vicious cycle, it may progress until you feel completely paralysis.
Also, once your anxiety had induced complete paralysis for the first time, it could even get worse. Because then you may intensely start fearing going through that process again; and indeed, that fear will practically guarantee that you will go through it repeatedly. We know you can’t simply cease worrying or fearing for your well-being; but we also know that once you understand the causality and effects of anxiety, you will stand a better chance of keeping anxiety from overpowering you. In fact, using the right strategies you can actually begin undermining your anxiousness quite simply: by making a conscious effort to stop feeding it with your negative energy.
There’s an extremely simple and effective trick that you can use, whenever you identify the process through which anxiety induces paralysis. Once you feel the early signs of a paralyzing anxiety attack whether it be minor tingling, numbness or loss of sensation you must go into alert mode. This means you will start working actively to detract your attention from the interplay between anxiety and your muscle numbness. How do you do that? Simple. You just have to move fast and hard enough so you don’t have time to think.
Seriously! As soon as you pick up the signs that your anxiety may be about to strike, you need to engage physical activity quite furiously, so that paralysis won’t be a remote possibility. Go out do some jogging, get swimming if you have a pool, or just skip a rope until you’re exhausted. Whatever you do, just don’t pause to think of anything! Not your anxiety, not the unpleasant physical sensations, and certainly not the possibility of getting paralyzed. This technique can be highly efficient, since it redirects your energy flow and deprives anxiety of the mental energy it needs to thrive. Try it out, and you’ll be surprised with the results.
