Does anxiety make you feel rundown and unwell?

I have GAD and a few other anxiety labels. I have experienced high stress for a few years since my brother attacked me. I will be doing well then this time of year I feel high stress out of the blue, I think because I have social anxiety and have to do a lot of visiting and also I know my family will want to see my children and it causes me intense anxiety. I don't speak to my family since my brother attacked me as they resent me for not forgiving him. I am just civil with my mum and 1 of my sisters but I find seeing them difficult after the way they have treated me so my husband thinks thats why i get stressed and anxious every December.

A few weeks ago I had some physical anxiety, like high anxiety for 2 days, it passed but since then I haven't felt quite right. I have been poorly this year with an underactive thyroid and chronic fatigue but that was improving but in th e last 2 weeks i have had energy crashes again (which land me in bed fora day) I've had 2 of them in 2 weeks which is out of the blue again. Since the crashes I have just felt generally blurgh. Nausea all day every day, loss of appetite, heavy feeling in stomach, weakness in my thighs and a general fatigued woozy feeling in my head. It feels like I am walking on a boat. I had that dizzy feeling last winter and my GP said it was stress and anxiety. It comes and goes and yes does increase when anxious but also comes on when I feel fatigued.

My husband and friend think I am just anxious and that's causing my general blurgh body feeling, nausea and fatigue. My head feels like it's swaying today, a heavy sickly tummy and dread feeling. It's horrible. I have a lovely husband and 3 wonderful children. I do have severe social anxiety since i became ill this year but I am keeping visiting to a minimum this CHristmas so I don't crash from exhaustion as I still get very tired. My dad is visiting Wednesday afternoon and I am anxious about it as my husband won't be here, and my mum is visiting Saturday morning, I feel sick about that one.

Can anyone relate to the feelings I am having? I worry I am letting my family down. I was so excited for CHristmas and doing so well physically and mentally until a few weeks ago. I worry I am letting them down feeling this tired and worn out again. Why does this hit every December? I really was excited and happy. It's so frustrating. Now I am worried I won't be able to enjoy CHristmas and will be feeling terrible all this week with these physical feelings and fears of socialising.

Urgh, I sound a right miserable cow lol!!

B x

It's a little bit chicken and egg.

Prolonged anxiety will make you feel rundown. Feeling rundown and tired can initiate feeling anxious.

So the answer is yes, but sometimes we feel rundown and unwell first.

Absolutely!

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Originally Posted by Fishmanpa

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Thank you both.

I'm hoping it's not my ill health again that's why I'm so worried.
Can it cause how I feel in the absence of a fast heart and typical high anxiety?.I just verbally have a lower level of churning anxiety, nausea, feel constantly anxious at a level without fast heart, shakes etc...

I've been under an extreme amount of stress the last 4 months. I feel like complete crap. Makes total sense.

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I agree with FMP. Your recent bloods were absolutely fine-I would try not to think about physical illness. Constant anxiety can cause overwhelming fatigue and a whole range of physical symptoms.

Thank you all.

Just gave myself a fright. I stood up and had a little heavy head rush which I always do on standing but nothing bad. I went to the window to tell the parcel man he was supposed to come to tomorrow as I've the collection booked for tomorrow not today. As I opened the window to talk to him I had an awful heavy head rush and my right ear drum was flapping so fast and loud I panicked..closed the window and lay on the floor terrified. I had an awful pressure on the top of my head. I was shaking scared what it was. It lessened after a minute or so. I've still got a heavy head. On standing now I'm fine totally and even tested walking to the window and was fine. Can anxiety cause a head rush like that? Why would my ear flapping? I checked my bp and I was ok and on standing fine. It's given me a fright. I'm now terrified why I had such a rush to my head and why my ear drum was flapping. What if it wasn't anxiety and I need to see a doctor. Urgh I did not need that to happen.