Most people just realize they suffer from anxiety disorders when they start experiencing unfamiliar and inexplicable changes in their body processes. These symptoms can have different durations and often occur at the same time, such as blood pressure changes and breathing changes: despite being triggered by anxiety they can work together, which in turn can lead to other strange sensations throughout the body. Anxiety is so challenging to deal with because it can source all kinds of symptoms, some of which can interfere with one another and even with anxiety itself.
For example- let’s imagine you’re standing in your workplace, same as every working day. Suddenly, you feel a drop in blood pressure and you start getting increasingly anxious. As you start worrying more about it, your stress levels increase, and you start feeling you’ve been caught in a negative cycle that will surely lead to potential problems such as headaches, tiredness, fainting or embarrassment. After a while, you may find yourself absolutely nerve-wrecked and terrified, even though you could have just sat down, drank a glass of water with a bit of sugar, did some breathing exercises- and five minutes later you would be back to your normal state of mind.
In simple terms, you should be more worried with the causes of anxiety rather than its potential consequences, because that’s where you can actually make a change. From another perspective; in the case of prolonged shifts in blood pressure, your anxiety levels can change at the same rhythm. This is a clear clue that, for example, the blood isn’t reaching the brain with enough sugar and oxygen, which in turn increases susceptibility to having headaches, confusion or fears, all common symptoms of anxiety. Once you understand how your anxiety works, you can take action to tackle its many causes, so its effects over you are much less noticeable.
Because of intimate relation between all parts of the human being, your anxiety will induce changes in normal functioning of the body, usually increasing blood pressure and leading to all kinds of bizarre effects, some of them listed before. That is why is so important to become aware of our own functioning so you can deal with whatever situation comes ahead. If you need to worry about anything, try to worry about how you can control the different causes leading to your anxiety problems, because that’s where you stand a real chance of managing your inner discomforts.
