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Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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anxiety inside my head

absflo15
absflo15
Hello
Is it me or am I just putting to much attention to my anxiety. I have been feeling something inside my head, I start to feel it tight and like a pressure then like if I'm about to lose my breath and like little zaps. Is this due to anxiety, my whole head feels strange and makes me think I'm about to shut down, has anyone else felt this before?
rskb3
rskb3
I have not felt it in my head like that but, I hold my anxiety in between my chest and stomach. It is a strange thing to have to describe to anybody but it is always there. that uncomfortable mass of anxiety that lives within me. I know that sounds strange but that is what it feels like.
GwenY
GwenY
I understand this, had anxiety for years and years. The feeling is chest down to stomach and it feels tight all the time unless I am engrossed in something. Also if I think it out too much I feel like I am not breathing deep enough. Much worse in the dead of night when I can't sleep and keep thinking about the tight knotty feeling, then I think of my breathing. Awful - I often go online in the small hours to move my thoughts away.
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missscales
missscales
Not to be an alarmist, but maybe you should bring it up to a doctor, just to make sure. If I had zaps and pressure in my head, I'd get it checked out.

It might just be anxiety. I had chest pains directly over my heart for a couple years. Ultimately, it was the anxiety, but I'm still glad I went for tests, just to be sure.
looney1
looney1
Brain zaps can be caused by changing or coming off some meds. Anything like that going on?
Community LeaderMid
Mid
Change in weather, medication, hydration are all possible offenders.

With anxiety, remembering that it is natural and that movement will release the physical symptoms fast naturally can give you a way to work through the sensations.

Best wishes.
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