Does the brain really give you physical symptoms ?

[Cjc_woodworx]

Hi all how much does your mind actually give you physical symptoms. Is it just a way to calm you down or is there actual truth behind ? Because I must be going mad

[Hidden]

Hi Cjc, yes it does. It is hard to believe but anxiety affects you in so many ways and one of those ways is physical symptoms and a variety of them, and that is why people with anxiety in particular health anxiety always feel like there is something physically wrong with them. We have to learn to accept these symptoms as anxiety so that we don't let anxiety consume us. It's not easy but I have learned to live with them, still learning. You are not going mad. Anxiety wants you to believe that.

[Gabby130798]

Hi cjc yes it does. I’m currently having cognitive therapy and my pwp informed me at my last session that when we panic and get anxious our body goes in to fight or flight mode even though there is no danger and the physical symptoms we feel as result of our bodies preparing it’s self to either fight or run our body temporarily stops blood flow to most of our organs and puts the blood into our muscles so we can put up a fight if need be and that’s why we feel sick and it’s the same for the brain part of the blood flow to the brain is redirected to our muscles for the same reason and we feel dizzy. It’s all normal bodily reactions to danger (even though there is none). But the symptoms will only last for 45 minutes after that our adrenaline runs out and everything goes back to normal.

I hope this helps it definitely helped me knowing that what I was feeling was perfectly normal.

[Hidden in reply to Gabby130798]

Gabby is this why we feel so weak afterwards?

[Gabby130798 in reply to Hidden]

Yea it takes a lot out our bodies it uses nearly all of our energy to be able to prepare its self for battle

[Hidden in reply to Gabby130798]

Makes sence that's what I always figured

[Alun001 in reply to Gabby130798]

Great answer, along with fight or flight, there is freeze. Rabbit in the headlights type. Brain overload and shuts down. Can be as bad as the other two!

Peace!

[Gabby130798]

t it makes sense that we feel so shitty when our body is doing every thing I can to keep us safe which is what it’s meant to do and that your not going crazy and it not just in your head

[Cjc_woodworx]

I appreciate the help everyone is giving does put my mind at ease

[Jeff1943]

Anxiety cannot kill you, cannot disable you and cannot send you mad. Anxiety does not have the power to do that. But over sensitised nerves can mimic almost every medical complaint you can think of. Perfectly.

But unlike the real thing the fake illnesses and symptoms of anxiety disorder will never show up on MRI scans, CT scans, Ultrascans, X-rays and blood tests.

This is because they are fake symptoms - though they feel real enough at the time.

But don't waste your time trying to cure yourself of illnesses that you don't have. No mstter how hard you try you can't cure yourself of an illness you don't have. Instead - spend your time curing the illness you do have: anxiety which is the cause of your fake symptoms.