7 Signs Your Anxiety Is Out Of Control

Have you ever wondered if the amount of stress or anxiety you are feeling is healthy? Everyone gets anxious sometimes, and some anxiety is normal. 

Studies have shown that small amounts of anxiety is healthy and is a sign of intelligence. Large or excessive amounts of anxiety can hurt you.

When your brain just won’t shut off at night, not being able to relax and be at peace. If anxiety is extending to every part of your life, not just an anxious situation, you may have an anxiety disorder.

Below are 7 signs your anxiety is spiraling out of control and how to manage it.

1. Constantly Worrying About Everything!

When you are supposed to be enjoying yourself and having a happy time, but your brain is still saying, AAHHHH! I’M NERVOUS!!

You can’t relax and continue to worry about not only big things but worry about the small stuff too. 

Being so exhausted from worry, now the stress is beginning to affect and interfere with your daily life.

You are worrying about unlikely events, bad things that most likely will not happen, even after you’re reassured by someone you trust.

If your anxiety doesn’t stop at some point in the day, your anxiety is out of control.

2. Increased Negativity And Irritability

Having a negative mind can make our lives look dark and bleak. Life can seem hopeless, seeing negativity in every situation.

You think everything is wrong or people are against you, and they’re not. All of this can make your anxiety worse.

Anxiety tends to turn people inward. They begin to look at themselves in a more negative light. Negative minds are just mad at the world, becoming more and more irritable.

Read: Handling Your Negative Thoughts The Positive Way

3. Difficulty Sleeping At Night

Once in awhile is normal, but not sleeping every night because you are worrying is bad for your health, both physically and psychologically. 

If you go to bed and immediately your brain turns back on. You are worrying about everything. 

Nightmares keep you awake, unable to fall back to sleep, waking up too early because you are worrying.

Not getting enough rest can turn our moods negative; it can become a vicious cycle.

4. Difficulty Concentrating

Many different things can contribute to not being able to concentrate, such as ADD/ADHD, depression, or other factors. 

Anxiety can also cause you not to be able to concentrate. When your thoughts are moving from one thing to the next so fast, you can not entirely focus.

As your anxiety gets worse, so will your ability to concentrate.

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5. Experience Uncontrollable Panic

If you are feeling helpless and have a great sense of fear or dread. You have a panic attack.

Some symptoms may include hot flashes, sweating, racing heart, difficulty breathing, chest pain, and nausea.

If you have these attacks regularly, I recommend seeking professional help immediately. 

All this anxiety and cortisol (stress hormone) going through your body all the time is not healthy.

6. Problems With Relationships

You get mad quickly over things that never bothered you before. 

The way your spouse eats their food. How your co-workers speak and talk annoys you. You get annoyed when your children ask you questions or want to do something.

An anxious person can be more pessimistic. They don’t want to do social things they used to love. 

Anxiety can make you less patient and can cause problems within your relationships.

7. Feeling Out Of Control

People with anxiety have a hard time expressing what’s going on, and they have a sense of drowning or life is spinning out of control.

You feel you have to plan everything to make sure things go as planned and even try to control people in your life.

In reality, you can’t control people or most things that happen in life. 

 

Some so many people experience anxiety in this world. I’m one of them, and managing anxiety is the key to a happy life. 

Anxiety is healthy, it’s treatable, you have to take the time to seek the help you deserve.