5 Ways Anxiety Can Show Up

Anxiety disorders are often considered one of the most common mental health disorders and can be difficult to diagnose if care is not taken. This is because anxiety affects people of all backgrounds, colors, and ages including grown-ups, adolescents, teenagers, and kids. Research shows that there are different types of anxiety disorders such as generalized anxiety (GAD), social anxiety, emotional anxiety, stress anxiety, and OCD.

All these variations of anxiety have one shared similarity – the anxiety occurs too strong, too frequently, is often way out of proportion to the situation, and directly affects a person’s day-to-day activities and happiness.

Anxiety can often be triggered by an underlying stressful situation, when anxiety is not treated it can lead to other complications such as panic attacks, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Feel free to reach out to us if you are experiencing any of the following.

Below are 5 five different ways that anxiety can present:

• Sense of uneasiness or nervousness.

• Constant panic feeling or fear.

• Muscle tightness or tension.

• GI symptoms such as vomiting, Nausea, stomach aches.

• Constantly feeling overwhelmed and out of control.