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Maybe similar to you but in the opposite direction, but I never really noted much physical symptoms of anxiety unless I was outright panicking, so I never thought I was particularly anxious.
Now I'm honestly not sure if it's anxiety or what, but ever since I had a major mental health episode this past fall and winter, stomach pains and nausea are actually one of my big indicators of a bad mental health days. Literally never used to happen to me before.
I suppose there may be a benefit in my new symptom to clue me in to hunker down for some waves and try to do nice things for myself. Dunno.
That's interesting. This was when I was young and dumb but before I knew what anxiety was, nausea was my only symptom. I wouldn't be nervous or panicked, I would just feel like shit, vomit, then once I left my house/started doing the thing the nausea would go away because I was having fun. I also found that weed shut the nausea off completely. So I had the self medicated cure which probably delayed me in figuring out what anxiety really is. These days I'm self aware enough that I get every classic symptom of anxiety and understand when I'm having anxiety even before it gets to nausea.