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Can anxiety make you feel wiped out?

Can anxiety make you feel wiped out?

With my anxiety acting up again, I feel so wiped out.  Even after sleeping all night, I still feel so groggy and just blah. Uuughhhh, just want to feel myself again.  No physical symptoms, healthy, happy, no anxiety.  
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oh yes anxiety can do many things but yes it can when i go through it i feel drained /weak just to tired to breath, so answer is YES
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In my humble opinion, the tiredness, the lethargy, the total lack of any get-up-and-go is one of the worst "side effects" of anxiety. It's just so easy to stay in bed, lay on the couch or mope around the house. You have to fight this part of anxiety with everything you've got. And what took me years to learn is a lesson my old high school chemistry teacher taught us........"energy begets energy!" When I get to feeling the way you're talking about, I no longer give into it. I put on some really good music really loud and that get's my toes tapping and almost instantly I feel a smidge better. I can actually feel my energy level on the rise. But you can't stop there. You have to set a goal for yourself, a project that YOU WILL COMPLETE! For me it was usually some housecleaning project because I hate housecleaning so I had gobs of jobs to choose from! Say I picked the big bathroom, which I immediately regretted as soon as I walked in and realized just how massive this job was gonna be, but I forced myself to stay with it which I will tell you was not easy! It was in fact REALLY, REALLY difficult. And I will confess right here and now that this theory didn't always work. There were times I'd walk into the bathroom, see the scope of the mission and walk into my bedroom and flop on the bed..........sometimes I wouldn't be seen for days! But........this is about the SUCCESS stories! You got your music going, your toes tapping and then you begin to gather up all your supplies, which for me meant renting a mule to get everything I needed upstairs. And then I'd just start...........you can't stand there and contemplate this too much or you're gonna lose your groove, so I'd just dive in and pretty soon it looked 10 times worse than when I began, but I could also see a tiny bit of improvement and before I knew what was happening, I was a ball of fire! I was Martha Stewart on meth! I was an entire brigade of "Spit n Polish" gals.............I was pure energy and it felt great! And when, hours later, I had the cleanest bathroom West of the Mississippi, I flopped on the couch and I was pooped, but I felt really good. And once again, Old Man Henderson's therory was proven to me. If you just START the ball rolling, pretty soon it's rolling all by itself, but it's taking you with it. Energy DOES beget energy. But you have to prove it to yourself. I never bought into it. But as you can see, I'm sure trying to sell it now! For a reason.........it works!
Sometimes I feel so tired I go to bed early and get a good nights sleep, but when that dang alarm clock goes off, it feels like I just layed down! It's a battle. Sometimes we win and sometimes we lose, but we can win more often if we know that e=e
Peace
Greenlydia  
  
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