Posted by garnet71 on April 16, 2009, at 13:25:50
In reply to Anxiety and Depression cause you to feel this bad?, posted by Cseagraves on April 16, 2009, at 13:08:54
Yes, anxiety sucks the energy out of you. Your body has to do a lot of work to keep you in a state of fight or flight for extended time periods. Every organ in your body ends up being under distress. How would you expect your sytem to function in that state when its only 'meant' to be temporary?
The same thing happened to me when I went untreated, having anxiety 24/7. Yeah, and a lot of people who have this problem continually think there is something medically wrong with them physically-diseases and stuff like that. (As I've been told by therapists/doctors). That is also why people with anxiety tend to get symptoms dismissed by doctors to, btw. But of course that doesn't mean that someone with anxiety doesn't have major medical problems as well. If you do have medical problems with a history of chronic anxiety, your more likely to be underdiagnosed, imo.
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