Welcome to Anxiety Slayer, I'm Shan Vanderleg here with my wonderful friend and co-host Ananga Severe.

This week we're discussing a listener question about the exhaustion that can accompany generalized anxiety.

The question that came in said,

how can I feel so anxious

like I could crawl out of my skin and so tired at the same time.

Which is so true.

Anxiety can make you so exhausted.

Yeah, it's such a perplexing experience isn't it because we feel kind of wired with the anxiety and restless and then at the same time so exhausted. One thing that really helped me understand this is a teaching from Iraveda which we often talk about on the podcast India's ancient science of life.

Iravedader teaches that this all comes initially from fatigue.

The anxiety comes from overstimulation of our mind, from strain on our mind.

So it's the anxiety itself that's causing the

exhaustion. So when we wonder why we can feel highly anxious and so tired at the same time.

That's why.

There are two sides of the same coin

where we feel restless and totally wiped out

at the same time. Yeah, and the underlying causes this overuse or strain on the mind because anxiety we know puts our mind and nervous system under extreme duress if we've got running negative thoughts,

what if thoughts if we're worrying, what if this happens, what if that happens or we're

worrying something's wrong with us, we might be worrying that we feel our mental health's really suffering.

It's all sending this strain to our mind and our nervous system which sparks the anxiety and piques it more and also causes fatigue.

And unchecked this feeling of anxiety and tiredness can increase on both sides.

We feel more anxious and more exhausted as time goes on.

And this is why it's so incredibly important

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