Anxiety, damaging or not?

[Carl87]

Hi all.

I have suffered Anxiety in disorder form for about year. I now feel I’ve overcome this. Over my journey I’ve always heard that Anxiety and all of its symptoms are harmless. And whilst I agree with this as I’ve made a recovery, other information I’ve come to read lately says otherwise. Anxiety , essentially puts stresses our bodies and persistently elevated stress is of course not good for us. We all know that stress is a killer. I guess that because of my suffering, I’ve possibly now shortened my life span in some form or another?

Thoughts?

Thanks.

[Titan4757]

Hi Carl. Congrats on your journey and healing! Highly doubt it. If a person's symptoms are truly anxiety/panic and not a serious health issue, it can't kill you or shorten your life. Our bodies are so strong and resilient. It may take months or more to heal but I believe we become stronger mentally and physically. Like they say, "if you read it on the internet, it must be true." Hahaha!

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[Carl87]

So the answer is no then just what I wanted to hear!

[Icanbeathis2016]

I had the same query. Ive pondered and worried myself lately on that same thing. It has become my newest fear that I will actually stress myself or worry myself to death.

[Carl87 in reply to Icanbeathis2016]

You won’t it’s impossible!

[Icanbeathis2016]

So your saying stress cant kill us? It csnt cause other harmful things to happen to our bodies? So it csn hurt but wont kill us?