heart palpitations is actually an individual's natural response when facing life problems and difficulties. It is often accompanied by nausea, chest pain, breathlessness and most distressful heart palpitations. When you can feel your own heart beating, you are considered to have heart palpitations. Anxiety and heart palpitations often come hand in hand.
Anxiety may affect a person cognitively, physically, emotionally and behaviorally. It imposes fear of uncertain danger, elevates your blood pressure and heart rate, causes a sense of panic, nausea and chills and leads to both voluntary and involuntary behaviors.
Anxiety is considered abnormal when the symptoms of anxiety persist for a certain period of time. When this happens, you may have developed an anxiety disorder.
Common physical signs and symptoms of anxiety include hot flashes, chills, sweating, shortness of breath, fatigue, dizziness, insomnia, headache, muscle tension and aches, cold hands, palpitations / irregular heartbeats, nausea, diarrhea, abdominal discomfort, trembling, numbness, chest pain, dry mouth, swallowing difficulty, frequent urination and hyperventilation
Anxiety sufferers may also experience many emotional or psychological signs and symptoms including dread, shyness, avoidance, irritability, concentration difficulty, nervousness, extreme fear, obsessive behaviors and fear of madness.
How much the anxiety affect an individual will be depended upon the individual itself and also with the kind of disorder that he or she is suffering from. Of course, the symptoms will be felt much worse and constantly in people with severe anxiety.
Anxiety and heart palpitations
Anxiety may cause many uncomfortable symptoms, but from all of the symptoms, palpitations may be the most annoying. This is because when you experience heart palpitations, you may feel like getting a heart attack. This in turn will worsen the anxiety attacks.
Palpitations from anxiety attacks may cause a feeling of a pounding heart, skipping heart beats or a fluttering sensation in the chest. In more severe cases, it may feel like your heart is stop beating and you are going to die.
Palpitations that are caused by anxiety often can be alleviated with anxiety medication. But you must consult your health provider first and find out whether the palpitations are caused by anxiety, or other medical problems. Exercise regularly, improve your eating habits and reduce caffeine and sugar intake are also very helpful to alleviate anxiety and heart palpitations.
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