Anxiety and Sweating

Addressing Social Anxiety and Sweating in Teenagers

With most teenagers, anxiety and sweating go hand in hand. True, we all experience anxiety to some degree every day but if you are a teenager who suffers from excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis), then this can push your anxiety even further.

As a teenager, a lot of changes are going on around you. For one, your body is changing and your hormones are jumping all over the place. All of a sudden, you feel alone because no one ‘gets’ you. And when you’re thrown into a social situation, your hyperhidrosis might kick in and before you know it, severe anxiety follows.

Anxiety and sweating have a very dangerous relationship that develops out of a chain reaction. While it is normal to sweat during an awkward social meeting, excessive sweating usually results in more awkwardness that needs to be combated with a lot of self-esteem building issues and even visits to the doctor.
How to Conquer Anxiety and Sweating

For the most part, young people between the age of twelve and twenty-one usually face a lot of undue stress on their lives (academia coupled with competition and side-jobs) that add to their daily grind. Most of the time, they have major uncertainties regarding the direction of their life and career. Not only are these younger people overworked, they also do not have the opportunities or the practice of being in a social situation involving newer, perhaps older, people. This in turn creates awkwardness in social settings that is very unnerving.

Hyperhidrosis adds to this problem by increasing the nervousness that a young person faces. When they see or feel themselves sweating, it increases their anxiety, which in turn causes more sweating. This never-ending cycle causes a great amount of anxiety and is generally quite a damaging blow to the self-esteem and confidence young people.

So here’s how to handle this.

Heavy sweating is usually apparent in your palms and underarms. Consult a doctor about this, relating that it’s becoming troublesome for you. Most likely, the physician will give you a prescription antiperspirant, which you can use on your armpits and palms. Give this treatment a few days and see how it works for you.

Secondly, and to address anxiety itself, try some confidence-building exercises. One such exercise that works well for many people is self-hypnosis.

Lie down in a quiet and comfortable room and relax. Start visualizing yourself in various situations. Take small steps and don’t visualize yourself immediately speaking in front of a large audience. Just think about, say, meeting a new friend.

Visualize how you can introduce yourself. Paint a mental picture, seeing yourself very confident as you extend your hand and announce your name in greeting. Visualize how the other person reaches out with a big smile and shakes your hand in return.

From this simple scenario, increase the complexity of the situation. From meeting someone to talking to him/her for an extended period of time, to meeting a group of people, to hooking up with them in a party, and so on.

In every visualization session, picture yourself as a calm and confident person. Practice this self-hypnosis often and you will dramatically boost your confidence, and thus get rid of your anxiety.

Heed the tips above if you want to control or completely banish anxiety and sweating in your life. The teen years are challenging enough without them.

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