In order to check
out whether you may be suffering form anxiety place a tick next to those symotoms
you experience regularly
How you feel ?
How you feel ?
nervous.
frightened .worried . anxious
something dreadful
is going to happen feeling
Tense /stressed/ uptight/on edge/unsettled
.Unreal/strange/woozy/detached panicky
How you think
constant worrying
can't concentrate
Thoughts racing
mind jumping from
one thing to another
imagining the worst
and deliberating on it
common thoughts
"I'm losing control
"I'm cracking up "
"I'm going to faint "
my legs are going to collapse"
"I'm going to have a heart attack"
"Can't cope"
I've got to get out "
What happens to your
body?
heart pounds
/races/skips a beat
chest feels tight or
painful
tingling or numbness
in toes or fingers
stomach churning or "butterflies
having to go to the
toilet
feeling jumpy or
restless
Tense muscles
Body aching
sweating
Breathing changes
Dizzy/light headed
what you do?
pace up and down
start jobs and not
finish
can't sit and relax
on the go all of the
time
talk quickly or more than usual
snappy and irritable behavior
Drinking more
smoke more
eat more(or less)
