Anxiety Support Group
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...
Does anybody else feel like there's a lump in your stomach when you're stressed? I'll feel like there's a tennis ball in my stomach for a week before it goes away. I always get worried that it's something serious and of course that makes it worse. If you do experience this can you tell me what exactly it is?
throat. If i get severe anxiety it causes dizziness and disorientation plus I often get very cold.The fact that it does eventually go away would probably rule out a physical problem.
It's caused from your body's fight or flight response thinking you are in physical danger and therefore diverting blood and energy to the areas needed to keep you alive, in the moment of danger. When we get anxious our brain reverts back to the survival mode that used to keep us from getting eaten by lions. Your muscles get more blood and oxygen so you can get out of the situation, your lungs are prepared for running, your heart beats harder/faster to get the blood to the important parts. It diverts as much energy as possible from the GI tract because the last thing you want to have to do when running for your life is to stop to have to go to the bathroom. So yeah, maybe more answer than you wanted, but that's why it happens.