Anxiety Almost Always Causes Dizziness
Dizziness, light-headedness and fainting are very common symptoms of anxiety.
In some occasions, you might feel as though you’re just a little woozy, then before you know it, you find yourself in a situation where you’re afraid you might faint. Somehow, these feelings would convince yourself that you’re about to die.
If your dizziness is accompanied by uncontrollable obsessing over your health and if worrying that you might faint seems to actually make it harder for you to stand straight, quite probably, you’re just having an anxiety episode.
Fighting off regular episodes of dizziness
If you start feeling dizzy on a regular basis, you should consult your doctor to make sure that there are no causes other than anxiety. Dizziness can be caused not only by anxiety but also by different viral infections and other inner ear problems.
Light-headedness is usually brought about by an impaired circulation of blood to the brain. A drop in blood pressure by standing up too quickly from a sitting position or having heart problems such as arrhythmia, rapid or slow heart beats, or stroke can cause dizziness.
A case of dehydration from excessive vomiting, diarrhea and fever is also one of the many reasons for dizziness. Loss of fluids in the body decreases the volume of blood, which then leads to inadequate amounts of blood circulating systemically.
Moreover, inflammation of the inner ear such as in the case of Meniere’s disease causes a loss of balance or an experience of vertigo.
Once you see your doctor, you’ll know for sure whether there’s a physical cause to your episodes of dizziness. If your dizziness is directly related with anxiousness, then you’ll know that you need to focus on treating your anxiety disorder.
Dizziness is not an illness, rather it is a symptom. It is the body’s own way of telling that there is something wrong. The feeling may vary from a simple light-headedness to vertigo. Usually, an anxiety attack brings with it some episode of dizziness. The room may start to feel as if it is spinning like a top. This is because when a person starts to panic, he or she tends to take short shallow breaths. This shallow breathing results in the excessive loss of carbon dioxide from the blood, which causes the blood pressure to drop. With this drop in blood pressure, oxygen delivery to the brain is impaired and then fainting ensues.
Once you are certain that your dizziness is caused by anxiety, you can start taking action to make it vanish permanently. There are certain anxiety relaxation techniques (yoga and breathing) you might want to try. They have been proven highly effective in helping other sufferers of anxiety.
General guidelines to reduce dizziness episodes
- You should try doing what ballet dancers do while spinning on one leg: keep your eyes open and focus on a spot that’s at least 10 feet in front of you. This little trick can be extremely effective in averting dizziness.
- First of all, try eating at least six times per day with equal time intervals between each meal. This will prevent your blood sugar from dropping too low and since the first symptom of low blood sugar level is dizziness, you will be well off preventing future dizzy moments.
- Also, you should try removing any kind of refined sugar and stimulants from your diet. Consume more apples, nuts, porridge and pears. Drinking 4-6 glasses of water is also necessary to slash your anxiety symptoms to a minimum.
- Adding Vitamin B6 to your daily ration also helps in preventing dizziness since it is very good for your nervous system, which is responsible for supporting your balance.
- As soon as you start feeling dizzy, start breathing from your diaphragm (learn this kind of breathing especially if you tend to hyperventilate).
