Anxiety Symptoms
When you experience anxiety, stress or PTSD, you may encounter the following symptoms, for example:
Mental anxiety symptoms
- Difficulty concentrating, constantly feeling 'on edge'. Finding it hard to communicate, negative 'what if' thought spirals, irritability, easily distracted
Physical anxiety symptoms
- Sleep issues, dizziness, drowsiness and tiredness, pins and needles sensation, heart palpitations, increased heartbeat, muscle aches, pains and tension, excessive sweating, shortness of breath, nausea, bowel or bladder problems, tension headaches
When should I get help with my anxiety?
If you're unsure if your anxiety is normal or becoming an anxiety disorder, ask yourself the following questions to get more clarity.
Do you...
- feel regularly worried, tense, irritable or always on edge?
- have irrational fears?
- feel affects your work or relationships?
- drink more or use prescription or recreational drugs to cope with your anxieties?
- feel that something terrible will happen if you don't do certain things in a particular way?
- routinely avoid certain situations because you feel anxious about them?
- suffer from panic attacks with physical symptoms like chest pains, shortness of breath, nausea or stomach pains?
Do you have unprocessed trauma?
A traumatic event is an experience that has overwhelmed you. It made you feel helpless and affected your ability to cope afterwards. If the following is you, a PTSD therapist can help you.
YOU…
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are unable/unwilling to be vulnerable in relationships
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feel unworthy/unlikeable/unlovable
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believe that you are not deserving of love
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think there is something wrong with you
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have flashbacks
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find it hard to cope
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have a destructive relationship with food/sex/drugs/alcohol
How to get help for your anxiety or PTSD?
→ One-To-One Therapy For Anxiety or PTSD - See Venka in Central London or Blackheath SE3 to resolve your anxiety, trauma and PTSD.
→ 4 Week Online Anxiety Recovery Program - Identify what is causing your anxiety and what part of the brain (cortex or amygdala) is causing it. At the end of the program, you can be free of anxiety and be back in control in 28 days.
→ Online Therapy for PTSD, Anxiety & Trauma via Zoom - Resolve your anxiety, trauma and PTSD via Zoom. Confidentiality is assured because Zoom is is secure and encrypted.