Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore

anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life.

Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

In today's episode, I want to talk about headaches, and I want to talk about whether the headaches

that maybe you are experiencing are possibly anxiety-related.

Many times people go along for quite a while with physical symptoms and sensations and

physical symptoms and sensations of anxiety because they can actually just cope with the

feelings. And sometimes people think that these symptoms and sensations are a normal part of

life and they don't give them much thought. Of course, they can happen. You know, some of the

feelings typical with anxiety that you hear a lot about like getting hot or the hot sweats or

muscle twitches, the stomach ache, right, the nut and the stomach or the butterflies, these are

often easily shrugged off as they come and they go. Maybe not giving much concern to them.

But then there are undeniable and very present symptoms that people can't just let come and go,

and they do give more attention to. And some of these very present symptoms have more

impact on their lives and they call for more attention. They actually are demanding you to pay

attention because it's so painful and not easy to cope with on a regular basis in your life.

And headaches actually can be one of these more significant symptoms. So headaches come in a

plethora of different types of headache and varying degrees of pain. And these anxiety type

headaches that I want to talk about can be very painful and they're very inconvenient. They do

interrupt your life maybe more than some of the other less demanding anxiety symptoms or

sensations. So anxiety comes into play here as we add more to our stress levels with no relief,

no relief valve. With the head we can experience pressure, pain or we can experience both.

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