What should I do if I feel restless due to anxiety?

Many people often become restless and may even experience dizziness and headaches after developing anxiety disorders, and are unable to truly calm themselves down. Therefore, the first thing to pay attention to in normal times is to plan for the future, pay attention to stability in other aspects, and also pay attention to adjusting the body in normal times.

1. Pointing to the future. This emotion points to the future. It means that some threat or danger is coming or will happen soon. Frequent unnecessary worry is one of the typical symptoms of people with anxiety disorders. For example, they may worry about their loved ones, their property, their health, etc., which seem normal to ordinary people. In other words, the reactions of anxiety patients do not match the actual situation or deviate greatly.

2. Emotional state. Anxiety is an emotional state. The patient's basic inner experience is fear, such as being nervous, uneasy, or even extremely panic or terror. Paroxysmal or persistent occurrence of inexplicable fear, tension, anxiety, phobia, and uneasiness. The patient may have an anticipatory sense of danger, a sense that some kind of disaster is about to happen, or even a sense of death. Many patients also suffer from depressive symptoms and lack confidence and interest in their current and future lives. Sometimes I become emotional and lose my balance, often get angry for no reason, quarrel with family members, and am dissatisfied with everything.

3. Physical discomfort. Along with the anxiety experience, patients will also experience some physical discomfort, psychomotor restlessness and vegetative dysfunction. Physical discomfort is often an early symptom of anxiety disorder, such as palpitations, chest tightness, shortness of breath, discomfort or pain in the precordial area, rapid heartbeat, general fatigue, decreased ability to live and work, and simple daily housework becoming difficult and incompetent.

Such symptoms, in turn, increase the patient's worry and anxiety, thus forming a vicious circle, seriously affecting people's physical and mental health. The vast majority of patients with mild anxiety disorders also have sleep disorders such as insomnia, early awakening, nightmares, hand tremors, finger tremors or numbness, irregular menstruation, loss of appetite, dizziness, fear and anxiety, and in severe cases, a sense of impending death.

In addition, anxiety disorder has three other characteristics:

1. Painful emotional experiences that are disproportionate to the situation, and anxiety about things that have no definite objective object or specific, definite conceptual content.

2. Psychomotor restlessness: fidgeting, pacing, even running and shouting, and may also manifest as involuntary tremors or shaking.

3. Autonomic dysfunction accompanied by physical discomfort: sweating, dry mouth, throat congestion, chest tightness and shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, piloerection, palpitations, redness and paleness of the face, nausea and vomiting, frequent and urgent urination, dizziness, and general weakness, especially in the legs.