  The Impact of Anxiety on Your Body
Anxiety can often trigger physical manifestations of the mental state. This fact sheet shows a diagram of a human, labelling areas where anxiety-symptoms may arise. Although originally intended for cancer patients, this fact sheet is equally relevant to other patients; particularly children (as it is a diagram).
Bodily symptoms labelled:
- Breathing rate;
- Skin colour;
- Muscle reaction;
- Other areas of discomfort; etc.
This fact sheet is sourced from Ausmed Publications' textbook: 'Psychosocial Care of Cancer Patients: A health professional's guide to what to say and do', editors Dr Jemma Gilchrist & Dr Katharine Hodgkinson, (2008) chapter eight: 'Stress and Anxiety', by Dr Jemma Gilchrist.
Author: Dr Jemma Gilchrist
Dr Jemma Gilchrist is a senior clinical psychologist with clinical experience in psycho-oncology. Since 1999 she has worked in two separate tertiary oncology services providing psychosocial care to adults with a wide range of cancer diagnoses as well as their families and carers. Jemma has experience in educating other health professionals on the role of psychosocial support and interventions in the oncology setting. In addition she is an honorary associate of the University of Sydney and provides clinical supervision to clinical psychology interns at master's level. She completed her doctorate in 1995 in the area of children's eyewitness memory, and has published in the areas of interviewing children about stressful events, the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and postnatal depression. She has longstanding interest in the impact and treatment of anxiety in the medically unwell.
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