Anxiety without any reason.

Most humans experience anxiety without a specific reason. Anxiety is associated with a stressor, like a workload, exam tension, financial problem, relationship conflict, or unpleasant event. However, many people face anxiety without any specific stressor or undesirable event. Sudden feelings can arise when we are in a calm situation. These unexpected anxious situations can be exhausting, irritating, frustrating, and persistent.

Today, we will see the anxiety from both psychological and general perspectives. Furthermore, we will try to examine the causes of anxiety, the role of our preconscious mind in provoking anxious feelings, and also discover the tactics to uncover the cause of the stressors.

Anxiety in general terms.

Anxiety is an emotional response to perceive the treat, uncertainty, or any dangerous stimulus. Some level of anxiety is normal for human life; it protects us from threatening objects via our body’s reaction and resistance. Mild anxiety works as motivation and boosts our focus, creativity, and consistency. Somehow, anxiety can turn into a negative phenomenon when it becomes persistent and lasts for a long time. it also creates issues when it appears without any specific cause, that’s way it becomes a real threat to our mental and emotional health.

Anxiety according to DSM-5.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is the best-suited manual for studying mental disorders and their causes. The manual is published by the American Psychological Association, and it has specific definitions for mental disorders. DSM-5 defines anxiety as the excessive and persistent fear or worry that is difficult to control and causes significant distress and impairment, accompanied by physical and cognitive symptoms like restlessness, fatigue, concentration issues, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance, beyond normal apprehension for at least six months and not due to substance or another medical condition.

Anxiety and fear are two different scenarios, where fear is the immediate response to the threat, and anxiety is a situation where people anticipate future and potential threats in the present moment. Simply said, anxiety is our current overthinking of future predictions.

According to DSM_5 Anxiety has three main characteristics that make it different from fear and other psychological disorders. First, anxiety prefers to be persistent and excessive worry. Secondly, it’s difficult to control anxious thoughts, and lastly, it can show in physical symptoms like muscle tension, rapid heartbeat, sweating, restlessness, and fatigue.  

Why does anxiety occur without a clear reason?

Psychological disorders are not easy to measure. Likewise, understanding anxiety disorders is also a difficult task for psychotherapists. According to many psychologists, anxiety has more internal causes than external situations. Below, we are going to discuss some biological and psychological causes that make anxiety disorders difficult to measure.

Overactive nervous system

The human nervous system has quick responses and reflexes that are always ready to protect us from any threat. When the fight or flight response becomes activated, the body remains in continuous alertness. Once the danger situation disappears, the body reacts as if the danger still exists.

Suppressed emotions and unresolved feelings.

Many people use defense mechanisms to suppress threatening events. The suppressed deep emotions are danger, guilt, sadness, fear, and anger. These emotions didn’t disappear; they remain in our unconscious minds, and these emotions in unconscious emotions can cause anxious feelings in the future.  These emotions also create uneasiness all the time.

How does unconsciousness create anxiety?

The psychoanalytic approach believes that our unresolved psychological experiences create a huge psychological imbalance. These experiences could be a traumatic accident, physical and psychological abuse, low self-confidence, etc. It is essential to solve such issues at the time, if not, it appears onthe surface in our rest position, throughout showering thoughts. These unconscious thoughts may cause anxiety and persistent anxiety. We all experience such thoughts at night, during bath time, and on occasion when our mind is in a restful position.

Cognitive and automatic thoughts.

Our brain functions as a continuous working machine; we don’t have any switch off button to turn it down. So! The brain makes different thoughts; some thoughts are in awareness, some are unconscious, some are uncontrollable, and a few are creative and positive ones. Apart from that, some negative and automatic thoughts appear in our minds and create anxiety. Excessive fear of losing control, self-doubts, all of noting approach, and overestimated danger also create anxiety and uneasiness.

Biological and hormonal factors.

Neurotransmitters also have a huge impact on our thought processing and mental health. Neurotransmitters like serotonin, norepinephrine, GABA, and dopamine influence our emotions. imbalance of these neurotransmitters also causes anxiety and other issues in the brain. Apart from imbalanced neurotransmitters, our past traumas and emotional conditions cause anxious sensations in our bodies. These sensations are automatic and function from our unconscious mind.

Chronic overthinking and mental exhaustion

Unreasoned anxiety is mostly associated with overthinking and inner psychological facts of mankind. Human life hangs between the desires and responsibilities, expectations and personal needs, our goals and fears. Whenever these needs are lacking to be met, the body itself realizes the inferior feelings, and those inferior feelings lead to anxiety.  

Is anxiety without a reason dangerous?

As we discussed earlier, some extent of anxiety is necessary for our existence and daily functioning. But excessive and persistent anxiety can be dangerous for both our physical and mental health. Anxiety itself cannot turn into extreme if we address the small issue. Once anxiety reaches the extrema level, it disturbs our daily functioning, sleeping, can cause panic attacks, chronic anxiety, and body symptoms like sweating, trembling, muscle tension, and fatigue, etc.

How to address anxiety without reason?

Anxiety has various causes, and we can address some physical characteristics that can be used to address anxiety. In most cases, anxiety can be visible through our physical reactions, those emotions discussed earlier. Now it’s time to see the methods to reduce anxiety. Increasing emotional awareness, practicing mindful and relaxation techniques, limited usage of defense mechanisms, practicing positive thinking, and seeking emotional and therapeutic support, when anxiety crosses the limit, will give us a proper path towards emotional wellness.

Conclusion  

Anxiety is actually a response towards outer and inner world. Humans used it as a defensive tactic for several centuries. But in the contemporary world, excessive and persistent anxiety makes it difficult to focus on daily activities. Anxiety without a specific reason is not a meaningless phenomenon. Our mind is a complex machine that works without breaks; it generates various thoughts in a day. Humans by nature sometimes repress negative thoughts through ego defense mechanisms, one of which is unresolved memories and thoughts that turn into unconsciousness; these memories become invisible but interfere with our daily lives. Sometimes these thoughts create severe anxiety. So! Whenever we face a problem or a bad experience, it should be solved at that particular time, other wise it may generates anxious feeelings without knowing the causes.