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Default Feb 27, 2014 at 09:43 AM
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So yesterday my therapist tells me that my foot shaking is a physical "retriggering" of my anxiety.

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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
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Default Feb 27, 2014 at 07:25 PM
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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.
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Default Feb 27, 2014 at 07:52 PM
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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.
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Default Feb 28, 2014 at 04:39 AM
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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.

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