4 Cool Anxiety Facts

  1. Altered Sense of Smell

This fact shocked me and my friends since we do not think about how anxiety affects us outside of our emotions and social capabilities. As people become increasingly anxious, the more likely they are to consider neutral scents as bad scents. This is because in order to process odor, the olfactory system is utilized. However, as a person becomes anxious, the emotional system interrupts the olfactory processing stream.

 

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