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Here Is Why You’re Feeling Anxious for Seemingly No Reason

Here Is Why You’re Feeling Anxious for Seemingly No Reason

Ever felt anxious for no reason? Anxiety can hit you suddenly, leaving you confused. It’s a terrible feeling, making you wonder, “What’s happening to me?” or “Why do I always feel this way?”

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I’m here to help you understand why this happens and what you can do about it. First, let me ask: When you feel anxious for no reason, what tells you that you’re anxious? This is an important question, and you’ll soon see why.

For many people who feel anxious for no reason, the signal is physical — it’s a symptom in their body. 

If this is you, let me know in the comments. Others feel anxious because they keep worrying about small things, even when they know they shouldn’t. They realize they can’t control the problem but still worry. 

So, I would split these responses into two types: physical and mental.

When we have anxiety, we usually feel it more in one way than the other. If you notice physical symptoms like an upset stomach, racing heart, sweating, or muscle tension, you experience anxiety in your body. 

If your anxiety is more about constant worrying, you might not notice the physical symptoms as much. But as people work on their anxiety, they often start to notice both the physical and mental sides.

Understanding How Our Stress Response System Can Trigger Anxiety

This is important for understanding why anxiety can hit you suddenly. Let’s start with some basics about the stress response. You might know some of this, but it’s key to why anxiety can come out of nowhere. 

Our nervous system has two parts: the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. 

The parasympathetic helps us fall asleep, and the sympathetic helps us wake up.

Our sympathetic nervous system increases our stress response, while the parasympathetic helps us relax. It’s crucial for our bodies to stay balanced, so stress and its response aren’t always bad. 

For example, feeling hungry or needing the bathroom can wake you up in the morning or remind you to take a break from work. 

Stress tells us that there’s something we need to deal with, and that’s helpful — it keeps us alert and ready. We couldn’t work without it.

When our stress response is too strong, releasing extra stress chemicals into our body without a real danger, it can cause problems. Usually, we aren’t taught to tell the difference between a normal stress reaction and anxiety. 

But anxiety is like a big stress reaction that affects our whole body. It makes our fight-flight-freeze response kick in, even when there’s no immediate danger.

Understanding How Anxiety Keeps Going

When we feel stressed, our body releases adrenaline and our cortisol levels increase. Normally, cortisol helps reduce adrenaline, but it takes time. If stress happens again before adrenaline decreases, cortisol stays high, resulting in constantly elevated levels. 

This shows that our stress system is working too hard. With this ongoing stress, it’s difficult to use relaxation techniques to calm down.

If you’re always really stressed, your anxiety won’t leave you alone. It’ll bug you even when you’re trying to relax or sleep because your basic brain thinks there’s danger. 

It doesn’t want you to chill out. Your old brain can’t tell if something’s a big problem or just a little one.

I want to tell you two things to help you feel less anxious. Also, I’ll give you some useful tools to use. First, know that your anxiety is real — it’s a part of who you are. Everyone gets anxious sometimes, but if yours is really bad, it might help to think of it as something separate from yourself, like an unwelcome visitor that won’t leave.

Sorting Reality from Imagination in Dealing with Anxiety

Your anxiety keeps looking for problems to solve, making you think it’s helpful. But actually, it usually doesn’t solve anything. Consider stress as a signal telling you to take action, like when it reminds you to prepare food. 

Likewise, under anxiety, it might signal you to pay attention. 

But unless you need to run, fight, or freeze, you don’t need anxiety. You need your full brain to solve problems.

One helpful trick is to make a cartoon character that represents your anxiety. Think about how your anxiety feels and what it tells you — is it more in your thoughts or in your body? It’s usually a bit of both. Once you have an idea, give this character a name.

You could choose a character like a whirlwind or even a fast bird, although birds usually fly away from trouble. 

One of my friends in the community named their anxiety “Caleb” imagining her with hair standing on end, perched on their shoulder, ready to panic. 

When they felt anxious, they pictured putting that feeling into this figurine, helping them step back from it. 

This way, they could recognize the signal without feeling pressured to solve the problem themselves.

Here are two important things to keep in mind: First, if you have anxiety, it’s there, and you’ll notice it. Second, if anxiety is your usual feeling, you’ll often experience it, whether physically or mentally. It’s what you’re used to feeling most of the time.

Understanding the Cause of Ongoing Anxiety and How to Deal with It

Our typical emotions often conceal deeper ones, a topic not frequently discussed in articles but crucial for addressing anxiety. Anxiety frequently masks underlying feelings like sadness or anger, which I’ve encountered as a writer.

For me, I’d avoid feeling sad by getting anxious and trying to solve problems that weren’t mine. 

It’s important to acknowledge our struggle with feeling powerless or sad. Slowing down can be tough, especially with somatic anxiety, but it’s worth it to listen to the feelings behind your anxiety. 

This can stop them from turning into full-blown anxiety.

Now, let’s talk about what you can actually do. If you’re feeling anxious for no reason, it might mean your body’s natural balance is off. To fix this, try activities that relax your body and mind. 

This could involve activities like listening to calming guided meditations or practicing prayer in Islam for example. I’m referring to the gentle, mindful kind of practice that helps you connect with your body, not the intense yoga that makes you sweat buckets. 

Engaging in practices like prayer can truly help you relax, along with simple breathing exercises and grounding techniques.

Find the tools that work best for you and stick with them regularly, even when you’re not feeling anxious. Practicing regularly will help your body stay relaxed and reduce stress in the long run. 

This consistent practice will help you build a strong connection with these tools, so you can rely on them when anxiety hits.

If you’re not used to using these tools, your basic brain won’t recognize them. It’s always on the lookout for danger and ready to make you fight, run away, or freeze. 

So, it won’t respond to methods like deep breathing unless you’ve trained the thinking part of your brain to understand your anxiety and use these techniques properly.

Helpful Tools for Dealing with Anxiety

Here are a couple of useful tools to check out. First, there’s a free miniseries on YouTube called the “Ah Miniseries.” It teaches diaphragmatic breathing, grounding exercises, and a safe place exercise, which many people find helpful. 

Also, there’s a free webinar called “Rewire Your Brain for Joy and Confidence.” It talks about common human tendencies and brain qualities that lead to high anxiety and negative self-talk. 

It’s thought that people will find it really helpful.

Now, onto the second tool, which mixes body and mind methods. If you start feeling anxious out of the blue, just accept it as a familiar feeling without overthinking why or what’s causing it. 

Don’t jump to assuming there’s a problem. Instead, recognize the feeling and work on calming yourself down.

I don’t like this feeling; it’s uncomfortable. But I know if I take deep breaths, go for a walk, or talk to a friend, it will get better. In my 25, I worried a lot. So, I learned to meditate, be mindful, and spot negative thinking. I worked on avoiding negative self-talk and used different tools to help.

Wrap it up

Honestly, my anxiety almost went away or became much easier to handle. I want you to know that you can overcome anxiety too.

Anxiety can be treated, and you can get better. 

Even after my anxious thoughts decreased, I still felt anxious in my body. At first, I didn’t realize anxiety had physical effects. I often had tense shoulders and a stiff neck, but I didn’t link it to my anxiety.

When my anxiety thoughts went away, I still felt anxious in my stomach. It took longer for that to go away. Sometimes it comes back, but if I don’t focus on it, it goes away. 

If you feel anxiety in your body, don’t give it attention. Notice it’s there, but don’t let it control you.

Thanks for reading! Please take a moment to share your thoughts and experiences in the comments below. Don’t forget to share if you found it informative ❤

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