Has Anxiety and High Blood Pressure Affected the Way You Eat and Sleep?

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Apr 21, 2022

✨POV✨: You may have known how anxiety and blood pressure spikes can affect the quality of sleep or the kind of appetite you have. But, can both be present at the same time?

Let's start with anxiety. 🥶

Sometimes, anxiety is more layered and deeper than it may seem. It’s more than just a momentary, occasional feeling.

You've probably been an insomniac for ages, and it almost feels like it's your personality now.

Or you've been binge-eating every time you’re stressed - and not just on dedicated Netflix-and-shun-everyone-out days.

You may not know it straight away but chances are that sometimes these can point to anxiety and anxiety does not always show up with a warning sign.

If your anxiety occurs at random moments, and you exhibit physical symptoms of anxiety, like shaking your legs, racing heartbeat, and even hypertension, or in other words if you regularly experience intense anxiety, it becomes an anxiety disorder.

And anxiety disorders indicate declining mental health conditions.

What about high blood pressure? 🥵

The thing about high blood pressure is that it can happen over the years.

And the other thing - you may be oblivious to what's causing these increased blood pressure readings.

It can be lifestyle changes or choices that increase blood pressure. It can also be because of other underlying conditions like obesity or heart disease.

These can make it tough to control high blood pressure and lead to fatigue and cholesterol. And also has the possibility of leading to chronic high blood pressure.

Guess what - it is possible to have one or both conditions. 👀

Sometimes, your severe or recurrent symptoms of anxiety disorders can lead to rapid heartbeat or breathlessness.

This can affect your blood vessels, which can then lead to high blood pressure.

The flip side is also true - living with high blood pressure can be stressful and can lead to anxiety symptoms like tension and extreme stress.

But that being said, anxiety doesn't necessarily develop hypertension (long-term high blood pressure), and neither does it have to be the other way round.

But if you regularly experience intense anxiety, it can raise blood pressure or increase blood pressure even at times showing elevated blood pressure readings than the norm.

Treating high blood pressure and anxiety. 🤗

If you relate so far - here are a few things to remember as your own ✨ health tips ✨.

Oh, with these, you get to treat anxiety and blood pressure :)

😗 Pick the easiest way to exercise

It can be by dancing in your room with the speakers blasting.

It can be walking your pet.

It can even just be by taking the stairs every time.

This can keep your physical organs functioning in the best way.

Another way to change this game?

Or let being turn even your 10-minute walk into a more mindful and calm one.

What is being? Keep reading, you’ll know ;)

🍳 Anti-anxiety-and-high-blood-pressure diet

One way to do that is by eliminating foods that can affect your blood pressure or trigger feelings of anxiety.

For example, limiting your salt intake can help control high blood pressure while limiting caffeine can help lessen anxiety.

Oh, and foods with Vit-D, selenium, and Omega-3 work to combat mental illnesses and have anti-inflammatory qualities, and are known to work well with mood-related cells in the brain!

The next time you feel like giving into binge-eating, check out this mini guided session on being - I eat when I'm stressed. There’s no advice, no judgement here.

Sleep every 👏🏽 chance 👏🏽 you 👏🏽 get.

Nothing beats what a good sleep or rest can do for us.

It helps refresh our minds, allowing us to take on tasks more clearly. This also helps keep blood pressure levels in balance.

Give it a shot, check: I want to fall asleep easily.

Before we wind it up,

Know that there are ways to have low blood pressure and treat anxiety disorders.

Also, keep a tab on your blood pressure levels and mental health conditions.

How? The recommended way is with the help of a mental health specialist or professional.

There’s always being in the interim. This is your one-stop for all things feeling and healthy ways to deal with them - aka, mini guided therapies.

Think of therapy but like an app designed for one and customized just for you!

Whatever feeling you may be having, there's a mini guided therapy session for it.

Breathe! You got this!

Disclaimer

This is not a substitute for therapy.

Visit your nearest mental health professional to know more about your high or low blood pressure, severe symptoms of chronic anxiety, and depression treatment options. They can prescribe the best ways to cope with anything that can develop anxiety and higher blood pressure.