Can anxiety kill you?

Anxiety is not directly fatal. Panic attacks and anxiety episodes, while terrifying, do not cause death. However, chronic untreated anxiety has real long-term health consequences: elevated cortisol strains the cardiovascular system, impairs immune function, and disrupts sleep. The physical symptoms can feel life-threatening but are stress responses, not cardiac events. Lovon offers support for day-to-day anxiety management to reduce both the suffering and the long-term health impact.