- Sweating is controlled by our sympathetic nervous system, an automated response system that is controlled by messages it receives from the brain.
- When you are nervous, you may start to get warm and feel sweat start to drip from your armpits. When this happens, your brain will send messages to your nervous system that it needs to cool off your body. The sweat glands under the arms respond to these messages and start to release sweat to cool you down, according to Medline Plus.
- One trigger for sweating is our emotions, such as nervousness. The more you are nervous about sweating, the more you will sweat. If you tell yourself that sweating is normal, you may not be so nervous about it.
- Learning to control your emotions can lesson the reaction of sweating. Find techniques to calm your mind in situations that make you nervous.
- Underarm sweat begins at puberty and lasts your entire lifetime. Sweating is normal and can usually be controlled by antiperspirants.












