The Connection Between Dizziness and Anxiety
Nobody likes the racing thoughts and panicked feeling of anxiety, but for many people, anxiety doesn’t just live in the mind; it lives in the body, too. If every anxious thought feels like it sends your mind spinning (literally), you might be suffering from anxiety-induced vertigo.
Vertigo caused by anxiety can be highly disruptive. Imagine you’re walking to an important meeting when suddenly the floor seems to be tilting away from you. Your mind is spinning with anxious thoughts and the feeling that you’ve lost your balance. Now you’re arriving at your meeting more stressed out and off-balance than before.
Many people start therapy because they have these disruptive types of physical symptoms. With the help of our Toms River anxiety therapists, they learn the core cause of their symptoms and find healing through a comprehensive nervous system reset.
What Does Vertigo Feel Like?
Anxiety looks different in every person. Dizziness caused by anxiety can feel like:
- Falling
- The floor is sloping away from you
- The room is spinning
- Gravity is extra strong, pulling you to the ground
- Being tossed around by a wave
The Health Anxiety Spiral
Health Anxiety can quickly spiral out of control, making each instance of health anxiety worse than the last. Noticing the signs of this cycle is the first step in stopping a health anxiety spiral.
You notice something new in your body. It might be a soreness, a new discoloration, or a physical symptom like nausea or a headache. You might be able to trace this back to an event, but more likely, it seemed like it came out of nowhere.
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You leap to the worst-case scenario: You must have a sickness. Although there might be other, more rational explanations, your anxiety doesn’t let you consider them. It is convinced that this new bodily sensation is bad, and your alarm bells start ringing.
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To cope with the newfound anxiety, you might start googling symptoms. One search can lead to another, and hours later, you’ve discovered that what was once just a headache could be an early sign of a brain tumor. This sort of leap to conclusions isn’t logical and will often make the anxiety worse.
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You start asking your friends and family for reassurance. “Have you ever experienced this?” “I’m going to be okay, right?” “Should I go to the doctor?” Their reassurance doesn’t help for long. You start needing more and more reassurance, and spend longer and longer looking into your symptoms. Meanwhile, your anxiety symptoms (headaches, muscle tension, stomach aches, and more) escalate, adding fuel to the health anxiety.
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Physical symptoms of anxiety can feel overwhelming. Lifebulb’s team of anxiety therapists in Ocean County has the answer.
Steven Taragano
Resident in Counseling
As a Licensed Associate Counselor with six years of experience in the mental health field, I am passionate about helping individuals navigate life’s challenges and develop the tools they need to...
Chelsea Chang
LCSW
I have been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 2019 and have experience supporting young adults and adults with concerns such as addictions, substance use disorders, depression, anxiety, life tra...
Purvesh Shelat
LPC
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with over 10 years of experience supporting individuals through a variety of mental health concerns and life challenges. I believe that seeking therapy is ...
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Sherie Reed
PMHNP-BC
I am a Board-Certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) with over 10 years of nursing experience and a passion for helping individuals improve their mental health and overall qu...
Marcia Ryan
LPC
Taking the step toward therapy can be challenging, but as Carl Jung beautifully stated: “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” My passion for helping others began in...
Sarah Dooner
LCSW
My name is Sarah Dooner, and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I have been working as a social worker for about 10 years in many different fields, with many different people. My passion for ment...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety
CBT is considered the gold standard for treating anxiety. Our Toms River therapists have used CBT to help many clients understand their racing thoughts and take control of their anxiety. CBT takes a “top-down” approach, which means it addresses anxious thinking patterns that might be driving anxiety. It is a great therapy to use in addition to other, more physical-sensation-based therapies.
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Ground Your Body with Mindfulness
In recent years, studies have shown the immense benefits of mindfulness for mental health. It has since become a well-proven treatment method for many different mental health disorders, including anxiety. Mindfulness can be especially beneficial if your anxiety tends to spin into dizziness and other physical symptoms.
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Healing Through Your Body
Somatic therapy is a body-centric form of therapy that focuses on movement and breath to address physical sensations of anxiety. Because of this, it is a great choice for people who suffer from the physical symptoms of anxiety.
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Helping You Thrive
Regardless of what therapy modality you use, coping skills are likely to be a big part of that. A good Toms River anxiety therapist will give you tools to help you manage anxiety on your own. This can include breathing exercises like Box Breathing, mindfulness skills like Color Scanning, or humming, tapping, or even distracting yourself to ride out anxious moments.
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Lifebulb was built on the core belief that good therapists provide good therapy, and that in order for a therapist to be good, they need to feel supported. We prioritize our therapists’ wellness so that they can give you their full attention. No burnout, no counting the minutes till the end of the session, no racing to meet quotas, no wasting time wrestling with insurance panels.
The result? More time, more energy, and more joy they get to put towards what they do best: helping you!
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