This Is Why You're Anxious For No Reason

If you often feel overcome with anxiety for seemingly no reason, there are some things you can look into to help. In this video, we discuss why this happens and 2 tips to help so that you can identify the source and ease your anxiety.

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This video was created by Barbara Heffernan, LCSW for educational purposes only. These videos are not diagnostic and provide no individual consultation. Consumption of these materials is for your own education and any medical, psychological, or professional care decisions should be made between you and your primary care doctor or another provider that you are engaged with. Barbara Heffernan is not available for individual consultation via YouTube, social media, or email, and provides services only in the manner mentioned above.

☀️☀️CHAPTERS☀️☀️
0:00 What is signaling to you that you're getting anxious?
1:21 Somatic vs Cognitive Anxiety
2:58 When is stress too strong?
5:20 Is your anxiety helping you?
7:57 Is anxiety your habitual emotion?
9:36 Practical tools for anxiety

[zaftigninja]

Definitely feel it in my body, my anxiety lives in my stomach.

[lynettemcmechan]

Sometimes i wake up with anxiety, i call it morning scaries, i remind myself that it is just something crazy my menopausal body does in the mornings and it will pass. But i used to think it meant there was something i was forgetting to worry about or even a premonition of a bad event.

[SaviFitch]

I love how expressive your face is and how distinctly and clearly you speak.

[davidbeard]

Yep, for me it's in my body. I tense up particularly my neck and shoulders

[sweetanarchi]

This helps me a lot
Thank you Barbara ❤

[lynettemcmechan]

One “aha” moment from this video was that anxiety can cover up other emotions I am trying to avoid. Almost without fail, my anxiety is triggered when my kids are angry, disappointed or upset. Instead of dealing with those emotions, my anxiety shifts into high gear to eliminate their stress and solve their problems…which are not mine to solve. BOOM!

[jamesgormley]

You are soo fantastic! Much love from Ireland! ☘️

[MatthewChrisisOfficial]

When I’m experiencing anxiety, I tell myself that I’m simply excited.

[dusicaekaterinapetrovic]

Thank you so much for this explanation of why anxiety appears for no reason. My hyperventilation became almost chronic, and my sudden twitches in the head, sometimes even seizures of entire body, appear even in the situations when I am supposed to feel safe. Your advice about breathing encouraged me a lot, and I practise diaphragmatic breathing.

[lindawatkin]

I woke up from a happy dream.I opened my eyes and anxiety hit.

[gnkkimchi]

I believe that I have a protocol to manage my anxiety. It’s named ABLE. A for acknowledge. B for breathe. L for loosen up. E for escape. Escape is not running away but more like letting whatever you discover in ABL escape from your body, mind, and thinking processes.

When I feel anything building I stop and do what I call a body scan. This is A, acknowledge. I write everything down and I rate my angst from 1-10, where 1 is the lowest, no angst and 10 is my head, mind, and body are ready to explode.

ABLE works well for me when managing anxiety. But when depression creeps up on me, ABLE doesn’t lift me up. ABLE works well for calming me down but I can’t find a protocol like ABLE to lift me up. ABLE keeps me from dropping lower but I have not figured out a way to lift me up. I’m also totally opposed to meditation. I tried that route. It’s not a solution for me.

Music with a quick pace and meaningful lyrics helps but it can take several days to get lifted up to a point where I feel happy.

Do you have any ideas? Thanks.

[BreakingTheCycleAuthor]

Great video! You touch on something I first red about in the Road Less Traveled, i.e. that there is almost always something underlying most clinical mental illness i.e. unresolved childhood trauma, some life circumstance we are not ok with. A lot of mental illness, even some clinical anxiety seems to be our mind telling us we can no longer avoid or hide from something we need to resolve.

[grahamfonteyne]

You are a saint Barbara. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise. For some reason, I tend to feel my anxiety mostly in the morning, usually by the late afternoon or evening it goes away and I feel fairly calm and content. Yoga and meditation really help. I also find that taking a step back and observing my anxiety really helps. Awareness is so powerful. It really helps to know that I am not my anxiety. The more awareness I have, the less power my anxiety has over me. I've also found that acceptance is powerful as well. When I simply observe and accept my anxiety, it loses its power, but when I resist it, it seems to get worse.

[Peter-rgng]

Awesome video. Practical and in depth. 🙏🏻

[wandashoutz]

Anxiety with IBS for over 40 years, add in Menopause, not fun!! Anxious thoughts travel straight to the Gut and out the, well.. you know.. I am a worrier of EVERYTHING, so I really do not know what to do anymore if there is anything, so many years it is an automatic normal response of my system.

[warlockofwordschannel]

Some great explanations and tips, hanks so much!

[Ken-xwlm]

This video was made for me. I saw it when it was released and it changed my life

[raymonddavis]

Knowledge is powerful and transformative. Thank you so much.

[francesca]

Well done video for some clarification of the two. I have both and a big-time constant worrier all my life. Now it's worse due to a traumatic episode a while back, it's gotten so bad I got diagnosed with cPTSD and GAD and depression. Been working with these tools for well over a year but haven't really felt the results and wonder if I ever will. Also, have a therapist but I'm looking into "somatic therapy" also...for the body. I kept it all tucked down all my life, it would raise its ugly head here and there of course, but as folks do you just shove it down more and push forward. Thank you for doing what you do, it really helps, I appreciate your generosity of giving.

[crypto_source_tv]

when i get anxious, i think there is something wrong. i’ve had it so bad somatically where i was shaking very fast and my jaw locked up from being so tense