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Anxiety is a very debilitating mental illness. Often, it can heavily impact your day to day life in a very serious way. But it also can impact you in different ways. Because anxiety causes worry, sufferers can change their lifestyle and start to adopt new behaviour patterns to try and lower that worry and in turn lower the feeling of anxiety. Doing this every day means that you can turn those behaviours into habits, which can stay around for a long time. Even after the reason for doing them no longer affects you.

For example, because of my anxiety, I always automatically check where the exits are in a room whenever I enter. That is left over from when I was having frequent panic attacks and always had to know where the nearest exit was, in case I needed to escape. Anxiety can leave a lasting impression on your everyday habits because if affects your life so heavily. So, Psych2Go shares with you 5 habits you may develop because of anxiety.

1) Avoiding eye contact

This is something that I do on a daily basis. In fact, not even an hour ago, I was taking my dog for a walk and bumped into my ex-boyfriend’s parents. For the whole conversation, I was staring at his dad’s forehead. I hadn’t seen them in a couple of years and was super nervous. It was very difficult for me to look in their eyes while we spoke. Eye contact is something that

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