Anxiety can actually cause pain in the body

There are many symptoms of anxiety disorder, the most typical of which is the pain in the body, such as abdominal pain, low back pain, etc., and even wandering pain in the body. These pains are not caused by organic diseases, nor are they caused by psychological pressure of jealousy or extreme anxiety.

Nearly half of people with anxiety disorders have pain symptoms

Anxiety disorder is a common mental illness. Its cause is still unclear. It is related to genetic factors, personality traits, sudden events, stress factors, physical diseases, etc. The prevalence of anxiety disorder in my country is 5%-7%. Clinically, 30%-40% of patients have symptoms of physical pain, but do not have any physical disease. When anxiety disorder is relieved, the pain will naturally disappear. Many people always feel that they are sick, but in fact, many tests have not found the disease. In fact, it is related to inner anxiety. This type of disease has various physical discomfort symptoms as the main symptoms. Generally, there is no organic damage, but body pain still exists. Experts explain that this pain is an alarm, a reminder of the disease to the body.

Acute anxiety attacks are misdiagnosed

Anxiety disorder is an emotional disorder with anxiety symptoms as the main clinical manifestations. It includes emotional symptoms and somatic symptoms. Emotional patients feel that they are in a state of nervousness, anxiety, fear, fear, and anxiety. Patients with somatic symptoms are often nervous and have symptoms of autonomic hyperfunction, such as palpitations, shortness of breath, dry mouth, sweating, tremors, flushed face, etc. Sometimes they even have a sense of impending death, and in severe cases, they even have a sense of loss of control.

In normal daily life environment, some patients may suddenly experience extreme fear and tension, accompanied by a sense of impending death or loss of control, which usually lasts for a few minutes to a few hours. The attack starts suddenly and is unpredictable. The symptoms are very similar to those of coronary heart disease. Family members often treat it as coronary heart disease and call emergency services to send the patient to the cardiology department. The results of most relevant examinations are normal, so the diagnosis is often unclear, resulting in a high misdiagnosis rate for acute anxiety attacks and delayed treatment.

Anxiety requires psychotropic medication

The treatment of anxiety disorders is generally divided into psychological adjustment and drug therapy. Among them, drug therapy is generally used if there is no inducing cause. For common anxiety disorders, which are generally caused by psychological emotions such as excessive stress, lack of self-confidence, and excessive tension, psychological adjustments can be made. When facing emotional tension, you may want to take a deep breath, which can help relieve stress and eliminate anxiety and tension. When you lack confidence, you can imagine your past glorious achievements or imagine the scene of success to turn anxiety into strength. If the work at hand makes you upset and nervous, you can temporarily divert your attention and turn your gaze to the window so that your eyes and other parts of the body can relax in time to temporarily relieve the pressure in front of you. You can even get up and walk around to temporarily avoid the low working atmosphere.