Psychiatry

Anxiety can cause chest pain by increasing muscle tension, creating a feeling of tightness or pressure in the chest, and making you more aware of normal bodily sensations.

Anxiety chest pain is usually tied to feelings of panic, rapid heartbeat, and hyperventilation, unlike other types of chest pain that often come with physical triggers like exercise, illness or injury.

Chest pain caused by anxiety usually lasts only during an anxiety or panic episode—often from a few minutes up to around an hour—before gradually easing as the episode resolves.

Yes, stress can cause nausea. Psychological factors, including stress and anxiety, can significantly impact the body and lead to physical symptoms such as nausea. Understanding the connection between stress and nausea can help in managing these symptoms effectively.

When experiencing heart palpitations due to anxiety or stress, there are effective techniques to help calm down. Practices such as deep breathing, meditation, and mindfulness can significantly reduce symptoms and promote relaxation.

The terms "depression" and "clinical depression" are often used interchangeably, but they can refer to different concepts. Depression is a general term that encompasses a range of mood disorders, while clinical depression, also known as major depressive disorder (MDD), is a specific diagnosis characterized by more severe and persistent symptoms that significantly impair daily functioning.

Anxiety can cause a tight feeling in the chest by making you breathe too quickly, increasing heart rate, and tensing your muscles, all of which create a sensation of constriction.

Yes, ADHD can make you feel like you're in a fog because people with ADHD often have trouble keeping their focus, which can feel like a cloudy mind.

Yes, anxiety can cause a pins and needles feeling all over your body, usually due to stress-related changes like faster breathing.

Anxiety can trigger physical changes like fast breathing, which sometimes leads to a tingling feeling all over the body. This sensation happens because your body’s stress response can alter how your nerves send signals.

Feeling like your brain isn't processing well can be a sign of mental fatigue or burnout. Simple changes in your routine and self-care tips may help clear the fog.

Anxiety can change how our body works, and this stress response may cause numbness in parts of the chest due to rapid breathing and muscle tension.

Anxiety may cause numbness on one side of the body. Feeling scared or panicky can change the way you breathe and how your nerves send signals.

Yes, if you purposely scratch yourself to cope with strong feelings, it can be considered a form of self-harm. It happens when scratching is used to manage emotional pain rather than as an accidental injury.

While self-harm may feel like an addiction due to strong, recurring urges to self-injure, it differs fundamentally from drug or alcohol addiction. Though both involve cravings and habitual behaviors, the underlying reasons for these behaviors are distinct.

When you purposely starve yourself to cope with feelings or to punish yourself, it can be a form of self-harm. This behavior is very harmful to your body and may be part of an eating disorder.

Yes, studies have found that people with autism are more likely to hurt themselves compared to those without autism. This self-injury risk can come from several challenges, like communication issues or strong sensory feelings.

Non-suicidal self-harm is when someone hurts their body on purpose without wanting to end their life. People do it to help manage strong feelings like sadness, anger, or stress.

Self-harm often follows a cycle that starts with strong, overwhelming feelings, followed by an urge to hurt oneself, a brief sense of relief after self-harming, and then feelings of shame or guilt that can lead back to more self-harm.

Self-harm may provide temporary relief but leads to serious long-term problems.