Is Your Shortness of Breath Due to Anxiety or Coronavirus? Psychologists Explain
. He often uses this analogy to describe it: “Think of how it must feel if you just found out that a nuclear missile was going to hit your neighborhood in five minutes. Now think of how it must feel if these five minutes wasAnxiety creates energy in the body, Mayer explains, and that causes biochemical changes throughout your system. Your muscles tighten, your blood pressure rises, and your nerves fire more than usual.
, for example, your sympathetic nervous system triggers a huge release of adrenaline, causing an intense physical reaction.The most important thing to pay attention to isthey go on for. Ask yourself this: When did I first start feeling shortness of breath? A tightness in my chest? If it was during your daily scroll through Twitter as you read headline after headline about COVID-19, that’s worth noting.
, says Saltz. “The feelings would dissipate, although it could happen more than once in a day,” she says.take a deep breath, even if it feels like you can’t,” Clarks adds, especially if you try to slow your breathing. In COVID-19 cases advanced enough to cause shortness of breath, patients often cannot catch their breath for an extended period of time or feel additional symptoms, including a
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