So yesterday my therapist tells me that my foot shaking is a physical "retriggering" of my anxiety.

????

It is how I release anxiety. Yet she (who I admit knows a lot more than me) says it subconsciously is re-triggering my anxiety and I have to work on stopping it.

WTF.

I feel like I am going to snap

[Hellion]

That doesn't make sense.....seems like its something you end up doing to relieve nervous energy, not doing so would just make it build up quicker I'd assume.

[shabur]

Since I don't know what it would be retriggering, but I can say when I'm feeling anxious my right arm shakes. When my anxiety is triggered it really shakes. You might want to ask your T to explain the correlation.

[Mustkeepjob32]

I think anything you're body does like shaking, tremoring etc just assists the body in reving up the anxiety. I think that's what they were refering to. That physically stopping the tremoring can possibly stop the anxiety/panic attack or prevent it from getting worse.