Timing of symptoms

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I'm hoping I can word this so that people can uderstand what I am asking.

I put myself through a big health scare (thanks to Google-itis). While the doctors say that my problems are not serious (TMJ, Reflux and a great big dose of anxiety), I cannot convince myself. I have trouble believing that anxiety can bring on all of this. I am going to see a therapist starting in a few weeks, so hopefully that will help.

My question: Do the symptoms of anxiety linger even when you're not actually feeling anxious? For example....I can understand that I'd be hoarse when I'm having an anxiety attack, but would that stick around because I am having general problems with anxiety over these past few months. I could ask the same thing about other symptoms. All of my symptoms sort of come and go but I can't say they go away during the times that I feel I have kept my anxiety in check.

Thanks...
Jess
 
Dear Jess: All I know is from my experience and it is the same as yours. I suffer from more general anxiety that occassionally peaks during panic attacks. But like you, some of my symptoms do linger even after I calm down. And I also find that my symptoms come and go seemingly at random. It is a puzzling illness to say the least.
 
When my anxiety is untreated I definitely feel the physical effects even when I'm not feeling anxious (i.e. having an anxiety attack)...however I always have the underlying sense of anxiety (that nagging little feeling in the back of my mind). I've learned to ignore it and deal with it since I've had an anxiety disorder my entire life, but I've become more aware through therapy so I understand more that the physical symptoms can linger. A lot of anxiety can be caused through unconscious thought processes. I've just started psycho dynamic therapy, so hopefully a lot of that unconscious crap going on in my brain will come to the surface. I think a lot of anxiety disorders do have an unconscious component that can cause constant symptoms.
 
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