Can physical symptoms of anxiety and depression be relieved?

The answer is that in most cases it will be relieved or even disappear completely. Only in a few cases may there be slight discomfort, so don’t worry too much.

After all, most of the physical symptoms related to anxiety and depression are not supported by organic diseases. To put it bluntly, they are "wrong signals" sent to the body by disordered autonomic nerves and fluctuating neurotransmitters - for example, when the sympathetic nerves are too excited, even if you are not running or beating, your heart will beat loudly and your gastrointestinal tract will twist and hurt. These are not really broken organs, but just problems with the "control system". A sophomore girl I interviewed before was a typical example. At her worst, she would suffer from migraines two or three times a week. When her chest was tight, she always felt like she was going to have a myocardial infarction. She went to the cardiology department three times and the neurology department twice. She had an electrocardiogram, a color Doppler ultrasound, and a brain CT scan, and all the indicators were normal. Later, I took antidepressants for six weeks as prescribed by the doctor, along with cognitive behavioral therapy once a week. My mood stabilized first. Within a week, I no longer had migraines. The residual feeling of chest tightness lasted for more than two months. Later, I could even run the 800-meter physical test smoothly without any discomfort.

However, many people have indeed mentioned it in clinical practice. Although their mood is almost better, why do they still feel a little weak occasionally, or feel uncomfortable in the stomach after eating something cold? Different practitioners have different opinions on this point. Some people think that this is "body memory" at work - just like if you have been frozen for a long time in winter, you have to wait for a long time to recover after entering a warm house. The autonomic nervous system has been out of balance for months or even years. Even if the root cause of the emotion is solved, it will slowly adjust back to its original rhythm. It is normal to have a little discomfort during this buffer period. Some people also think that this residual symptom has nothing to do with emotions at all. It is a basic disease that was amplified by anxiety and depression in the past. For example, you have superficial gastritis. When you are anxious, you will sweat in pain. After the emotion subsides, the slight discomfort of gastritis itself will still exist, but it will not be as exaggerated and affect your life as before.

I once had a patient whose depression and anxiety scores had dropped to the normal range for almost three months, but he still had buzzing and tinnitus every day. I originally thought it was a leftover problem from his emotions. However, he went to the otolaryngology department for a check-up and found that it was an abnormal Eustachian tube function caused by staying up late for a long time. After two weeks of spraying the medicine, he was completely cured, and it had nothing to do with his mood.

To put it bluntly, it's like if your mobile phone has too many background settings and it freezes. The camera can't be turned on, the video crashes, and even typing is stuck. If you close all the messy programs in the background (solve the core problem of anxiety and depression), 90% of the glitches can be solved on the spot. If it's still a little sluggish after shutting down, or the cache hasn't been cleared yet, it will be smoothed out after two days, or the hardware itself has some small flaws, just fix it accordingly, and don't worry about it again because of this small problem.