Walking difficulties due to anxiety.

[Kflex29]

I'm a 28 yr old male that has suffered from social anxiety since early teens. I have experienced the typical symptoms of anxiety such as racing heart, nervousness, sweating, shortness of breath, shallow breathing, etc. But for the past year or so I have suffered from a new symptom where my anxiety affects my walking. When I'm in a social setting, i get nervous, my body begins to tense up more than usual. When I walk , it appears as if I am limping when there is absolutely nothing physically wrong with me. It's so bad that I don't even want to leave the house bit forced to cause of work. When I'm walking, I feel that others are watching which makes me more self conscious and causes me to walk even more funny :/ Idk if this is important or not but i can run normally and don't have any problems with that. All of this has made me become very depressed because I can't enjoy everyday life because I am so anxious in social settings. I can't even go to a grocery store or a gas station. I begin to walk funny there as well

[ShellyPooh]

I'm a 28 yr old male that has suffered from social anxiety since early teens. I have experienced the typical symptoms of anxiety such as racing heart, nervousness, sweating, shortness of breath, shallow breathing, etc. But for the past year or so I have suffered from a new symptom where my anxiety affects my walking. When I'm in a social setting, i get nervous, my body begins to tense up more than usual. When I walk , it appears as if I am limping when there is absolutely nothing physically wrong with me. It's so bad that I don't even want to leave the house bit forced to cause of work. When I'm walking, I feel that others are watching which makes me more self conscious and causes me to walk even more funny :/ Idk if this is important or not but i can run normally and don't have any problems with that. All of this has made me become very depressed because I can't enjoy everyday life because I am so anxious in social settings. I can't even go to a grocery store or a gas station. I begin to walk funny there as well

The same thing happens to me too. I was beginning to think that I had Parkinson's or MS. (that's what I get for googling lol) My arms and legs also get very weak and when I try to lift a glass or something to drink it seems like i'm going to spill it because I start shaking. This only happens when other people are around though. Weird! I'm not sure if I can run or not because I'm afraid that my heart will burst because of how fast my heart rate is normally so I avoid exercise :( Good to know that I'm not the only one this happens to but I'm also saddened that you experience it as well.

[alankay]

Yep, can happen. A beta blocker like Inderal(20-40mg) might help but this is from self-consciousness. Ask your doc about it. I used to gets tics sort of but age and an ssri(prozac) help me dwell less on all this and that in turn reduces the symptoms. Alankay