🌿✨ When Anxiety Affects Sleep, Appetite, and Energy ✨🌿
Anxiety doesn’t only appear as worry or nervousness. Many times, its physical manifestations are the first warning signs the body sends us. Understanding how it affects sleep, appetite, and energy can help us recognize it and address it early. 🔷 Sleep becomes fragile and scarce At night, when the body tries to rest, the anxious mind keeps the brain constantly active. Repetitive thoughts, anticipatory worries, or irrational fears interrupt the natural sleep process. This can cause: Difficulty falling asleep. Frequent awakenings during the night. Waking up too early and being unable to go back to sleep. Feeling tired upon waking, as if rest wasn’t restorative. Over time, poor sleep increases irritability, fatigue, and can worsen anxiety itself. 🔷 Appetite changes unexpectedly Anxiety directly affects the mechanisms that regulate hunger. In some cases: Appetite is almost completely lost. Eating becomes unpleasant or is forgotten. In others: There is a...