Can anxiety really do this

[Whatintheworldgirl]

Okay, I've had two years of this and lost almost 4 stone now. (TW discussion of disordered eating and mental health)

I just need someone sane to answer this for me because I'm driving myself insane.
I get nausea all day everyday. When I eat I feel like I'm going to vomit and that's a huge phobia of mine so as the months have gone on my diet has become very restricted. Today I had a few biscuits with a coffee for breakfast at 8am and then a piece of brown bread and butter at 4pm. I feel so sick. Surely that isn't enough food for a 5'5 almost 30 year old? Is this genuinely anxiety making me feel like this? Can anxiety have THAT much of an impact on your body? Am I truly that insane that I make myself feel nauseous all day? Like I miss food! I loved food. Now I feel like I've somehow created some sort of phobia of it and I'm trying to rationalise that perhaps even know it feels like nausea to me maybe it's nausea hunger? I really don't know. Feel free to call me an idiot. I definitely feel like one. I'm on a constant train of fight or flight and the sickness from my anxiety is destroying me.

Yes anxiety can absolutely manifest in physical symptoms. Have you seen your GP?

Sorry you’re having such a hard time. It can. What does your GP recommend OP?

Unfortunately, yes. Anxiety pours into your body and manifests as a whole host of physical symptoms that can make you feel like your dying or going crazy, at the most extreme.

See your GP? After a few years of moderate to severe anxiety, I started taking fluoxetine and the anxiety was mostly gone within a week! It was like a miracle!!!

Thinking of you... x

Yes, it absolutely can do this to you. However it's still worth going to your gp & telling them your physical symptoms (without mentioning anxiety) & let them run some tests.

Unfortunately yes it effects the body in so many ways, I hardly eat on really bad days, just sip ice water. You could ask your go to rule out any stomach bugs as there are some that can survive in there a long time.

Yes, anxiety and stress can manifest in all kinds of ways. I actually suffered similar for years and it affected my whole body including my memory and thinking, chronically sick. I couldn't eat and dropped to dangerously low weights multiple times.

Turns out it was stress due to various reasons and now I am not in that situation, it's pretty much gone. I can eat all the foods I used to without nausea or stomach ache, no longer exhausted constantly and am putting weight back on and I can think again.

You need to figure out why you are anxious and resolve it. I think it's being stuck in fight or flight, you're only supposed to be like that for short periods but prolonged or constant it affects you.

I feel really nauseous when I don't eat enough. Sounds like you're in this vicious circle. Easy for me to say tell yourself you're feeling sick as you're not eating enough, but I know it's not that simple

I had this Op, you have my sympathy.
I lost a stone (and I was quite slim anyway), the Dr gave me some anti-sickness pills which really helped.

Dr initially thought eating disorder but I did really want to eat. I literally just felt sick or was sick when I tried!

I was drinking complan milk shakes to try and get some nutrition in. I even tried Guiness to get calories in!
Go to your GP and get help with the anxiety, CBT helped long term and (touch wood), I’ve not had it in 10 years.