Bruise Easily and Anxiety

Treatment

When other factors cause or aggravate easy bruising, addressing the specific cause can reduce and eliminate this symptom.

When an active stress response causes easy bruising, ending the active stress response will cause this acute anxiety symptom to subside.

Keep in mind that it can take up to 20 minutes or more for the body to recover from a major stress response. But this is normal and needn’t be a cause for concern.

When hyperstimulation (chronic stress) causes easy bruising, eliminating hyperstimulation will end this anxiety symptom.

You can eliminate hyperstimulation by:

• Reducing stress.
• Containing anxious behavior (since anxiety creates stress).
• Regular deep relaxation.
• Avoiding stimulants.
• Regular light to moderate exercise.
• Eating a healthy diet of whole and natural foods.
• Passively accepting your symptoms until they subside.
• Being patient as your body recovers.

Visit our “60 Natural Ways To Reduce Stress” article for more ways to reduce stress.

Recovery Support members can view chapters 5, 6, 7, 14 and more for more detailed information about recovering from hyperstimulation and anxiety disorder.

As the body recovers from hyperstimulation, it stops sending symptoms, including this one.

Symptoms of chronic stress subside as the body regains its normal, non-hyperstimulated health.

However, eliminating hyperstimulation can take much longer than most people think, causing symptoms to linger longer than expected.

As long as the body is even slightly hyperstimulated, it can present symptoms of any type, number, intensity, duration, frequency, and at any time, including this one.

Even so, since easy bruising is a common symptom of stress, including anxiety-caused stress, it's needn't be a cause for concern. Bruising more easily and frequently will subside when unhealthy stress has been eliminated and the body has had sufficient time to recover. Therefore, there is no reason to worry about it.

Since worrying and becoming upset about anxiety symptoms stress the body, these behaviors can interfere with recovery.

Passively accepting your symptoms – allowing them to persist without reacting to, resisting, worrying about, or fighting them – while doing your recovery work will cause their cessation in time.

Acceptance, practice, and patience are key to recovery.

Keep in mind that it can take a long time for the body to recover from hyperstimulation. It's best to faithfully work at your recovery despite the lack of apparent progress.

However, if you persevere with your recovery work, you will succeed.

You also have to do your recovery work FIRST before your body can recover. The cumulative effects of your recovery work will produce results down the road. And the body's stimulation has to diminish before symptoms can subside.

• Reducing stress.
• Increasing rest.
• Faithfully practicing your recovery strategies.
• Passively accepting your symptoms.
• Containing anxious behavior.
• Being patient.

These will bring results in time.

When you do the right work, the body has to recover!

Short-term remedies:

Even though eliminating hyperstimulation will eliminate chronic anxiety symptoms, including easy bruising, there are a few things you can do to reduce the frequency of easy bruising.

Reduce stress – Since stress, including anxiety-caused stress, is a common cause of easy bruising, reducing stress can reduce episodes of this symptom.

Any stress reduction strategy can help improve this symptom. Visit our article “60 Ways To Reduce Stress And Anxiety” for natural stress reduction strategies.

Recovery Support members can read chapters 4 and 14 for many natural ways to reduce stress and anxiety.

Regular good sleep – Sleep disruption is a contributing factor to easy bruising. Therefore, regular good sleep can reduce stress, cortisol, and the body’s overall level of stimulation, reducing the severity and frequency of easy bruising.

Regular deep relaxation – Deep relaxation reduces the body’s overall level of circulating stress hormones, which can reduce the severity and frequency of symptoms, including easy bruising.

Regular light to moderate exercise – Regular light to moderate exercise can reduce stress and use up excess cortisol, which can help reduce anxiety symptoms, including this one. Regular exercise can also strengthen blood vessels, making them more resilient to impact.

Avoid stimulants – Stimulants, such as caffeine, stimulate the body by increasing the circulation of cortisol, the body's most powerful stress hormone. To help the body recover from hyperstimulation, we need to reduce the production of stress hormones and stimulation, not increase it. Reducing stress and stimulation can help reduce symptoms of hyperstimulation, including easy bruising.

Keep well hydrated – Dehydration can cause anxiety-like symptoms and aggravate existing anxiety symptoms. Keeping your body well hydrated can reduce and eliminate anxiety symptoms, including easy bruising.

Slow down – Anxious people often race around because of increased stress hormone stimulation. Racing around can make an individual more prone to bumping into things, causing bruising. Deliberately slowing down and being more deliberate about your actions can reduce impact incidents, causing bruising. Deliberately slowing down can also reduce circulating stress hormones since always being in a hurry causes an increase in circulating stress hormones and stimulation.

Therapy

Unidentified and unaddressed underlying factors cause issues with anxiety. As such, they are the primary reason why anxiety symptoms persist.

Addressing your underlying factors (Level Two recovery) is most important if you want lasting success.

Addressing Level Two recovery can help you:

• Contain anxious behavior.
• Become unafraid of anxiety symptoms and the strong feelings of anxiety.
• End anxiety symptoms.
• Successfully address the underlying factors that so often cause issues with anxiety.
• End what can feel like out-of-control worry.

All our recommended anxiety therapists have had anxiety disorder and overcame it. Their personal experience with anxiety disorder and their Master's Degree and above professional training give them insight other therapists don't have.

If you want to achieve lasting success over anxiety disorder, any one of our recommended therapists would be a good choice.

Working with an experienced anxiety disorder therapist is the most effective way to treat anxiety disorder, especially if you have persistent symptoms and difficulty containing anxious behavior, such as worry.[11][12][13]

In many cases, working with an experienced therapist is the only way to overcome stubborn anxiety.

Research has shown that therapy is the most effective treatment for anxiety disorder, and distance therapy (via phone or the Internet) is equally, if not more effective, than face-to-face in-person therapy.[13][14][15]