You do not need to keep your ‘anxiety needles and pins’ if you do not have anything to stitch on, there are hundreds of things you can do to get rid of them.
Let’s start first by understanding how this happens. Anxiety by nature is a natural human reaction to threat and danger. When we perceive a threat out of anxiety, in most cases a unknown and unreal source, our body does full time work to cope up with the stress. The fight or flight mechanism, an action done by the adrenal gland, triggers all bodily processes and prepares the whole system for action. Further, it shuts down non-emergency responses in the body causing some neurotransmitter imbalances as the process takes place. Anxiety Needles and Pins, or the ‘tingling’ sensation from anxiety, is due to a compressed nerves in certain parts of the body such as feet and hands. It leaves the blood circulation disturbed and somewhat abnormal in its function at a given time and so its not just tingling / anxiety needles and pins but you may also feel burning sensation and sensory loss.
Now the most important thing to keep in mind in times of anxiety is to never lose control of yourself, otherwise you will be inviting more symptoms to take place and if this happens, it’s going to be traumatic. Worst of all, panic attacks such as anxiety needles and pins to mention one, is unpredictable and sudden. To cut the chase, it will disable you to function appropriately in social encounters. I’ve heard a lot of people gone hypochondriac or the paranoid feeling of being ill from one simple anxiety symptom alone. You do not want to make things worst so here’s what you can do.
1.) When it hits your arms, try to clench and unclench your fist a number of times and swing your arms in all directions. This is to normalize the blood flow. This is very helpful if it occurs that you can’t feel anything in your arms and having the tingling, needles and pins sensation. When you move your arms, you request your body to supply blood to the active body part and thus normalize blood circulation. This is why regular exercise, in the long run, helps a lot in maintaining not only physical health but mental health as well.
2.) If it occurs that you feel it in your legs, what you ought to do is to move around, perhaps jog a bit to recirculate the blood in your legs. Because there are compressed nerves in the area, you feel the tingling / ‘anxiety pins and needles’ sensation in your legs. Through leg commotion, you will do the same thing as mentioned in tip number one – recirculate and normalize the blood flow and supply.
3.) If it happens in the upper part of the body such as neck and face. Do the same – rock your head left to right and up and down. It’s just a normal way of saying to your body that I need blood in my neck and face, and so it will correspond soon.
4.) The first three ways are immediate rescue techniques for impeding further anxiety panic attack; they are useful in preventing a worst case scenario of an anxiety panic attack. However, if you do not pair your intervention with a long term approach, more or less, your bodily responses will be slower and lamer. You need to do a regular exercise and switch to a healthy diet for good blood circulation.
There are easy ways on how we can counterattack an anxiety symptom like anxiety pins and needles. They are doable, practical without the need of any high cost professional fees. Nonetheless, in thwarting the whole thing from happening, it is important to have the right attitude in everything and that is, self discipline in terms of food and exercise.
