What Anxiety Can Feel Like

Emotional Symptoms

• racing thoughts

• overthinking

• feeling on edge

• emotional overwhelm

• irritability

• difficulty relaxing

Sometimes anxiety doesn’t even feel like “anxiety”.

It can simply feel like:

“Something feels wrong, but I can’t explain why.”

Why Anxiety Happens

Anxiety is not weakness, failure, or attention-seeking.

It is a nervous system response.

Your mind and body are trying to protect you and this is often due to some of these reasons:

• stress

• overwhelm

• past experiences

• pressure

• uncertainty

• learned patterns of thinking

Over time, this response can become overactive.

So even when there isn’t a clear danger, your system can still react as though there is.