New Symptoms

[jkd408]

Can anxiety cause new physical symptoms other than the ones that a person already associates with their anxiety symptoms. For example, I am used to having body aches when my anxiety is high, but now I'm getting random hot spots on body. Can i chalk that up to anxiety or should I be worried? How can you tell if its a new anxiety symptom or something else?

[CA88]

Yes.

Anxiety evolves. So once you stop being afraid of and or noticing one symptom, it tries to trick you by making you afraid of something else, until you just accept it all to be anxiety, and then it can't trick you anymore.

[Cody2015]

Yes. A trick is exactly what it is. When we stop becoming afraid of the symptoms, the panic runs out of steam. I know....much easier said then done. Let the symptoms come. Accept and don't fight. Don't ask yourself what if or why....just let the sensations flow through you.