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5 Anxiety Symptoms In Men YOU Should Spot It · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So 5 anxiety symptoms in men that you definitely need to
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  spot. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  Aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  I have autism, ADHD, OCD and dyslexia, and I make weekly
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  videos on autism and mental health.
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  So if you're new around here and you'd love to learn more about
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  content. So anxiety, can it hit you hard?
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  Of course it can and it impact anybody and everybody, but there
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  are like lots of people out there, especially men, who think
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  it's very masculine to not talk about their issues or their
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  mental health and kind of like brush it off and kind of, I
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  don't know, it shows a sign of weakness if you say that you
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  have mental health issues for some people anyway, because
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  that's the kind of construct that society has dealt with and
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  given us at the moment. So I decided that it was
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  important that we understand the issues that men face when
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  they're having anxiety attacks and anxiety symptoms.
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  So I have put out five anxiety symptoms in men that you
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  definitely need to know. And yeah, let's start right now,
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  guys. The first one here is a racing
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  heart. Now, when adrenaline starts
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  pumping around your body due to like, increased anxiety, your
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  heart rate will actually start beating more rapidly.
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  So as it's like beating more rapidly, you know, there's
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  everything going on and you're getting more kind of like how
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  breath and your heart's beating rapidly.
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  This is a very, very telltale sign that you're getting
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  anxious. So what I say is that you have
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  to watch out for this as an early warning sign for being
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  anxious. Your heart starts beating.
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  You'll definitely know about it 'cause you can feel it in your
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  chest. Your heart start beating right
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  out your chest. Like it's definitely something
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  to look out for and nothing to be ashamed of.
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  You just need to kind of go, OK, well, maybe I'm feeling a bit
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  anxious right now. My heart rate is increased.
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  You could also use an Apple Watch or something like that to
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  kind of like track your heart rate to see if it increases
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  anywhere. Good tip.
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  OK, number 2 is excessive sweating.
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  Now when you're like, you know, pumping adrenaline on your body
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  and your heart racing, of course you're going to start sweating.
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  That's why when you work out, isn't it, your heart rate
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  increases and you sweat. So if you are sweating quite a
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  lot and sweating excessively, this is an indication that
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  you're online heading straight for an anxiety attack and
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  anxiety is creeping up on you because you've got a bad, you
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  know, your heart rate is beating at your chest and you start
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  sweating. You're sweaty palms, you're
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  like, Oh my goodness. You know, this is something that
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  happens when you're feeling agitated and when you're feeling
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  anxious. So bear that in mind.
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  OK, so #3 is muscle tension. Now muscle tension happens
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  because your body is going to fight or flight mode, which
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  means that it thinks that it needs to kind of tense up in
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  case you need to fight something.
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  And then you, you need to kind of go running from danger or
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  whatever, right? And that's what the fight or
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  flight things for because adrenaline gets released into
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  your body. And then that's what happens.
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  But your muscles will start tensing up.
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  But of course, if you're just like walking around a shop and
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  you get an anxiety attack and your body thinks you're going to
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  have to fight a Saber toothed tiger and your body starts
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  tensing up, you'll feel your muscles just kind of get an all
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  tense. And it's, yeah, it's not a good
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  feeling. And that tense lasts a long,
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  long time. Actually, after, after the panic
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  attack happens, you'll be feeling sore from it as if
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  you've just done a workout #4 here is restlessness or
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  agitation. Now due to the male dominance of
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  testosterone, agitation will be a prominent experience when
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  you're experiencing anxiety, which means that you'll be quite
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  tense and, and snappy and, and agitated and everything will
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  become fight or flight because that's what's happening.
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  You're, you're experiencing a, a mode that is there to protect
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  you against Saber 2 tigers or glaciers or whatever.
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  And so, you know, you're walking on the store and something
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  happens and it's like, well, why is there a fight or flight
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  happening in a store? Because we're now triggered by
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  involuntary actions that will cause us anxiety and causes fear
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  and causes to have all of these things coming into play.
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  But bear in mind, these are all symptoms of an anxiety and a
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  potential anxiety attack. So #5 is the dizziness of
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  Vertigo. So after having a rush of
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  adrenaline around your body and the fight or flight thing coming
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  in, your brain will start to kind of be like, whoa, it needs
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  a bit of air and a bit of space. And you'll maybe become dizzy
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  and have a bit of Vertigo and not be able to focus on what
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  you're doing because your body's just gone through like a
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  workout, like a marathon, if you will.
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  You know, it's just done all of this stuff and it's worked
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  itself up because at the end of the day, you would potentially
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  fighting for your life in your body's response to stuff.
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  So these 5 symptoms are your best way of understanding your
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  body and your best way of understanding, hey, do I have an
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  anxiety issue? Do I have anxiety attack going
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  on? This is how you deal with it.
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  That's that's what it is. You know, you have to listen to
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  your body, You have to listen to what happens.
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  So you know, if you're a guy, you're watching this or you're a
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  partner of and you know, your partner's a guy and you're kind
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  of watching this, watch out for these symptoms and definitely
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  just kind of take it easy. There's a bunch of stuff that
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  I've done about how to help for anxiety.
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  I will leave it in a card in the end screen and I'll put it in
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  the description down below where you can check out more hacks for
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  how to avoid anxiety attacks and how to lower anxiety in general.
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  So guys, if you found value in this video, please share it on
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  Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Give it a thumbs up.
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  It helps me out and I'll see you next time guys, Peace.