Can persistant and unprecendented anxiety be caused by a condition?!
Question:
Can persistant and unprecendented anxiety be caused by a condition?
e.g.
by an underlying illness
or
by injury sufferred.
This is serious as I am experiencing this at the moment. I am not an anxious type. But I have experienced a head injury.
It could be just plain fear, of course. It is accompanied by unprecedented high blood pressure. The Doctor doubted by worries, although the blood pressure readings were real and so were the signs of injury.
Answers:
Yes. A relative had this.
Can't remember what it is called, but a prolonged period of stress or a single incident can lock the brain into a permanent fight or flight response, similar to post traumatic stress syndrome.
It can trigger all the responses to anxiety, dry mouth, sweating etc.