Warning Signs Of Essential Tremor

Tremors Worsening With Stress

An essential tremor patient may notice their symptoms become worse with stress. Stress manifests with changes in an individual's physical state, mental state, and emotional state. Common causes of stress include confrontations, deadlines, job loss, new job, death of a loved one, divorce, marital difficulties, legal problems, retirement, illnesses, and financial problems. The worsening of essential tremor when the individual is under stress falls under the physical changes that occur in their body. Other physical changes, besides shaking, induced by stress include sweaty palms, weight gain, weight loss, erectile dysfunction, chronic fatigue, and stooped posture. The mechanism behind how stress causes a patient's essential tremor to become worse is not clear, but it is thought to be associated with how the stress response speeds up numerous chemical and molecular processes in the body. The increased speed of these processes can exacerbate the effect of the inappropriate nerve signals that cause essential tremor.

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