What Is Nervous Tension?
Nervous tension is your body’s reaction to your perception of a difficult or threatening situation. It’s a terrible feeling - your heart races, you start to sweat, your mind goes blank, and you just can’t perform the task at hand.

Certain situations trigger these feelings of extreme fear and vulnerability. These situations are challenging, intimidating, or emotionally taxing for all of us.

Stress expresses itself in many forms. Nervous tension may be described as a short-term stress response that is a psychological state of being uneasy, easily agitated or distressed, most commonly prior to and during acute stressful situations/events that are challenging, intimidating, or emotionally taxing. The effects of nervous tension usually end when the stressful event ends.