Anxiety Symptom: Sweating - Perspiration

When you have anxiety, sweating is a very common symptom. In most cases, sweating is perfectly natural.

Being angry, nervous, afraid, or anxious causes sweating. Stress and anxiety triggers the brain to produce the hormones that make you sweat.

A good way to prevent this is to relax, so you can control triggering stress that causes this anxiety symptom.

No one is really sure why stress triggers so much more sweating in some people then others.

Everyone experiences anxiety from time to time. It's that feeling of dread or apprehension accompanied by a physical symptom like sweating, that is so scarey.

Here is a list of just a few of the natural causes of sweating:

• Anxiety
• Fear
• Stress
• Anger
• Nervousness
• Also, certain medications can cause sweating.

There are many medical conditions, besides anxiety, that can cause sweating.

Some include:

• Cancer
• Thyroid
• Heart Disease

Click here to find out how to stop all of your anxiety symptoms.

 

For more information, as well as referrals to specialists and self-help groups in your State, contact:

Anxiety Disorders Association of America
8730 Georgia Avenue - Suite 600Silver Spring, MD 20910
Telephone: 240-485-1001
Fax: 240-485-1035
www.adaa.org

Mental Help Net
CenterSite, LLC
570 Metro Place
Dublin, OH 43017
http://mentalhelp.net/poc/center_index.php?id=1

National Mental Health Association
2001 Beauregard Street, 12th Floor
Alexandria, VA 22311
Telephone: 800-969-6642
Fax: 703-684-5968
(TDD): 800-433-5959
www.nmha.org

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