Why Do You Feel Anxious?

Why do you feel anxious?

If you’ve been feeling anxious for no reason then this question may have been going around and around inside your mind. You go over and over past events to try and find an explanation for how anxious you feel right now. Yet you still can’t work out why you feel anxious. It’s frustrating and can make you feel even more stressed and tense.

No matter how much you dwell and overthink, you still feel anxious and it still makes no sense.

Sometimes there is a past event that kick-started your anxiety. Yet more often, your anxiety took hold and became a habit. It could have been a general tendency to worry and think the worst that intensified for some reason. Or maybe a whole series of stressful things were going on and you reach a point that spills over into problematic ways of anxious thinking and feeling.

The problem with trying to work out why you feel anxious is that anxiety isn’t logical and rational. Anxiety is purposeful. Your brain is looking for possible threats to try and keep you safe. Trying to use logic to work it out often just leads to frustration.

As I tell my anxiety hypnotherapy clients, even if you thought you had discovered what caused your anxiety, it doesn’t change how you are feeling right now. That’s why you want to shift your focus from the past and on to the present. By looking at how you are doing your anxiety, and what you are doing, you identify what is driving it. That’s when you can start to intervene by changing your thinking or altering how you feel.

In my short video further down the page, I talk about the question of why you feel anxious. And I cover shifting that focus to what you are doing now that means that your anxiety continues to rumble on and on.

Feeling Anxious For No Reason

So many people I help start by telling me they feel anxious for no reason. In this video, I talk about why you feel anxious and what I’d suggest you start doing instead. Click on the image to have a three minute watch now:

Rather than focus on the, often unanswerable, question of why do you feel anxious, put your attention onto what you are doing and how you are doing. Your anxiety continues to happen, even though you don’t want it to, due to the pattern of thoughts and feelings. If you identify the what and how then it is much easier to change things now and into the future. There are many ways to change thoughts and feelings and I’ve covered many ways in articles on this website.

Instead of looking back over the past for the solution to your anxiety, you can shift your focus to what you are doing, and how you are doing, your anxiety now.

And if you need any help to take back control over your thoughts and feelings then do get in touch. You can come for a free initial consultation where we’ll talk things through and discuss how we can soon have you feeling better and better in yourself.

To your health and happiness, 

Dan Regan

Anxiety Therapist in Ely & Newmarket

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