焦虑和流感：症状与联系

The psychological symptoms that classically define anxiety disorders are excessive worry, phobias that are fears of one specific thing, fear of social situations and intrusive and obsessive thoughts.

The physical symptoms that the medical community and literature classically associate with anxiety disorders are the symptoms of a panic attack: a pounding and racing heart, shortness of breath, sweating, chest pain, dizziness, a feeling of choking and trembling.

However, people who suffer from severe anxiety have many other physical problems that they believe are caused by anxiety. May people believe that their anxiety causes them to have flu like symptoms, and the fact that so many people with an anxiety disorder report that they have flu like symptoms has to be taken seriously.

Can Anxiety Cause Flu-Like Symptoms?

焦虑是否导致流感等症状并无医学研究，但同样，这么多患有焦虑症的患者具有流感的事实，如症状，这完全有可能确实可能确实导致它们。轶事证据非常强大，医学科学应该调查焦虑和流感之间的联系像症状。

The flu like symptoms that people with anxiety report are symptoms like: fatigue, muscle tension, muscle aches and pains, diarrhea and vomiting.

如果你有焦虑症和流感像症状，最好的事情就是等待几天，看看是否症状通过。如果症状没有通过，那么请去看医生，了解你是否有造成症状的身体疾病。您的医生可能会发现您的症状的原因。

如果你的医生没有找到你的症状的物理原因，那么有两件事要做：（1）​​接受你的症状是由你的焦虑引起的，而不是身体疾病，（2）采取措施减少焦虑。

焦虑和流感流行病学

当没有焦虑症的人周围有流感流行病时，经常担心他们是否会收缩流感，所以有焦虑症的人。在一定程度上，担心流感并采取预防措施完全正常。

但对流感流行病的恐惧可能会变得愚蠢，有些人举例说，留在家里，让自己留意去购物，看看朋友，因为他们害怕捕捉流感。

另一个发生的恐惧是担心你可能会从咳嗽或打喷嚏的人感染流感，因为你在地铁或其他公共交通系统中移动。

事实上，有一些医学研究开始表明焦虑和抑郁可以降低免疫系统抵抗感染的能力。

但是，我不建议你在流感周围时严重削减你的正常活动。肯定要小心。但如果你基本上好，就会走出快乐，做你喜欢做的事情。只需肯定不要让自己太努力或花费时间靠近有流感的人。

Does Anxiety Cause Influenza?

No. Even though anxiety can cause flu like symptoms, please don’t worry that your anxiety will actually cause you to get an influenza infection.

病毒感染不会引发新的焦虑案例，但如果您有预先存在的焦虑症，它可以触发并加剧您的焦虑。病毒感染或任何疾病的重要性，都会导致你过度担心你的健康。

如果这发生这种情况，最好的事情是：（1）挑战您在认知行为治疗中严重生病的信念，（2）使用冥想或思想来赋予自己赋予自己的信仰，以免相信您的信仰是真实的。

Can Anxiety Make a Flu Infection More Serious

We are not yet sure, but medical research is beginning to show that anxiety and depression can both impair your immune system’s ability to fight off infections.

这意味着焦虑可以增加真实流感感染的严重程度和持续时间。

If you have an anxiety disorder, and you get a flu infection, do your best to use all of the tools you have at your disposal to reduce your anxiety. This will help you fight off the flu. And remember, flu infections are almost never dangerous. With the passage of time you will be well again.