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Symptoms Of Nervous Breakdown

Last Updated: Apr 13, 2020

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The depressive thoughts usually lead to anxiety issues. The anxiousness can be specifically termed as health anxiety. The worry about health persists consistently, which is one of the obvious symptoms of nervous breakdown. The fear of a health problem happening any given time could be a real pain.

tense muscles, clammy hands, dizziness, upset stomach, and trembling or shaking

The tension in muscles are developed, clammy hands can be felt, dizziness and upset stomach, as well as trembling or shaking. The muscles felt swelled up or there is no sense in the muscles. The body gets the feeling of numbness and the palm as well as feet becomes clammy which might irritate all the time leading to frustration and the weakness in the body leads to dizziness and situation to avoid working and feeling of sleeping every time. The stomach becomes upset due to lack of food, as the gastric juice will be secreted more than usual.

insomnia

The situation of insomnia is developed and the irregular sleeping habits are developed leading to lack of sleep and sleepy every day. The unhealthy habit of eating increases and lack of maintenance of hygiene increases, low motivation for eating as well. The development of difficulty in focusing or recalling things. Feeling of unconscious every time and drained emotionally as well as exhausted physically without any reason.

hallucinations

The situation of hallucination is developed which leads to sensation of someone is near to the person or is walking along with the person. The paranormal thoughts haunt every time which may generate feeling of escaping or hiding from the people as well as places. The situation may become lethal as the person starts taking drugs to avoid such hallucinations which leads to tremors and other abnormalities in the body as a side effect.

extreme mood swings or unexplained outbursts

There are situations of mood swings which leads to sudden change of mood, like there is a time when someone is happy and suddenly the same person feels too low to even handle the unfound situation. The uncontrolled change of mood becomes depressing for the person facing nervous breakdown. There are situations of outburst which even has no reason and the things go unexplained. The person feels so low that he/she cannot handle the things going on in their mind.

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panic attacks, which include chest pain, detachment from reality and self, extreme fear, and difficulty breathing

There are situations which leads to panic attack and the person feels lost as well as helpless. The things which can be done easily will not be performed by the individual going through a nervous breakdown. The situations lead to chest pain which increases with time and leads to attack and there is a feeling of detachment from reality and lack of self-care, lack of motivation, situations of extreme fear, and difficulty in breathing.

paranoia, such as believing someone is watching you or stalking youflashbacks of a traumatic event, which can suggest undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

The feeling of paranoia arises in the nervous breakdown, the person starts believing that there is someone in their room or someone is keeping an eye on them, there is some situation which are being looked at by someone. This causes severe effects in the nervous system and the thought process leading to traumatic situations. These symptoms need to be diagnosed although it goes undiagnosed as a condition of stress disorder.

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    Written ByDrx Hina FirdousPhD (Pharmacology) Pursuing, M.Pharma (Pharmacology), B.Pharma - Certificate in Nutrition and Child CarePharmacology
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