No. It is not the chamomile tea making your anxiety appear strong.

What happens when we relax past the point we usually do, our body goes into "work" mode, and that is how anxiety affects us-it works.

The best thing I can give you is to get up, keep moving, distract your thought process, and try being mindful, in the moment.

Best wisheS!

Chamomile Tea is known for helping the nerves to reduce stress and calm the body. Make sure any tea you drink doesn't have any caffeine in it. a lot of them do and we don't know it. Try an Epsom Salts bath with Lavender to help you de stress. Hugs GB

Once I drank a few oz of beer & had an anxiety attack Long after, I read alcohol *can* do that. So I can never be absolutely sure. However I do think if u tried camomile - in a more settled situation - again, you'd get different results.

I like Mideye's Rep!y. I don't follow it perfectly, but I believe s/he understands the issue. Um, relaxation levels, yes. Relax extra much without preparing oneself and things start wanting to come out of the closet :o . :)

that is an interesting take on anxiety that mideye pointed out. I will be mindful and try to pay attention to that in the future.

The tea is supposed to relieve anxiety..But if you feel it is causing anxiety for you than don't drink it anymore.

When you relieve one pressure point/trigger for anxiety, often another one steps up to the plate.

That is what happens to me, so I get up, walk around, and find my stress of anxiety leaving naturally, then back to the thing I was doing to feel better.

I'm trying to figure out how to explain it, and not sure if this helps or not.

That's an interesting observation. I'll be more mindful of that.

About chamomile, if it's strong, I think it can have a more stimulating affect. I agree that trying the tea at different times might be a good way to test out your reactions.

Chamomile tea causes me anxiety. I've tried different strengths, different situations and different times of day, but the same thing each time. (It took me a long time to realize this because people kept telling me its supposed to calm.)
on the other hand, licorice root tea which is a stimulant for most people helps calm me, and helps me sleep at night.

Sometimes the mind can convince those of us with an anxiety disorder that certain foods or anything really is causing us to get sick or have anxiety. When I am going through a period of extreme anxiety disorders, I can convince myself that I'm allergic to almost any food or drink. Often, becoming afraid that certain everyday things like foods we usually eat are making us sick is a form of anxiety. Also, when you're body is in a state of panic attacks, it truly can become more sensitive to a lot of foods/drinks. If I were you, I would stop drinking chamomile tea for a few weeks, then try a small cup to it (without caffeine) when your stress/anxiety is less.

I was searching for the same thing. Last night I had some chamomile tea 30 minutes before bed in the hopes of just getting better sleep. And i had the most awful anxiety the likes of which I hadn't had in about 3 years. I felt like my world was going to end imminently. It was 100% chamomile tea, by twinings. I had just called in a refill for one of my anxiety meds before laying down and got a callback like an hour later from my provider, which usually take a day or two. Instead of thinking "Cool. That was fast. My meds must be ready." (which is what it ended up being) I KNEW I was in some sort of trouble and if I answered that phone it would be the end of my life. The only thing I had changed recently or even in the last hour, considering I went all day anxiety free, was drinking that chamomile tea. I just had to lay there, on my face, hoping that I didn't die and get dragged down to hell. No exaggeration.

So yes, chamomile can cause more anxiety for some people somehow. I'm one of them. And its NO. JOKE.

I think it's probably you checking in with you're self and analyzing your feelings that's what's more likely causing your anxiety

But maybe leave it alone for a while just Incase

Hi - yes, I've drank chamomile tea several times and each time I felt antsy, irritated and like my skin was crawling. I'm not a big tea drinker anyway, but I think it's possible it can have the opposite effect. My mother has taken Nyquil and it actually had the opposite effect for her - it made her very wired. Ugh - I stay away from chamomile, but "golden milk" or milk with turmeric in it does work!

Last night I drank a cup of chamomile tea from twinings for the first time...I felt drowsy and calm some time after. I fell asleep but was awokened by my heart racing and pounding. I haven't had this bad a panic attack in abt 4 yrs. Not having this tea again.