Place,Time & A Human Mind

Environment and Anxiety ~Divya Sharma

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The brain is a tricky little thing, it works in mysterious ways. Have you ever noticed how our brain responds to certain things in certain ways? For example in a garden of flowers, we tend to be more at ease rather than on a busy road, how on a rainy day we feel that sort of cool and collective calmness? How when walking down a hallway full of people we are all jittery and full of thoughts, how we walk into a room of people we like and we are all laughter and ease, how the shoulders relax and the eyes open a bit? How does the constant drumming of our hand slow down and suddenly taking one more step doesn’t feel too heavy? Yes, that’s what I mean when I say the environment affects how our brain works.

Anxiety involves a person’s feeling disproportionate and sustained distress, worry, or fear in response to an emotional trigger. That small drum of the hand, the tight muscles in the forearm, the constant churning feeling in your stomach or that little dizziness are all symptoms of anxiety in our day-to-day life.Anxiety can have a wide range of causes. These can include environmental, genetic, and medical factors.While anxiety is present in everyone's life, for some it’s only a matter of moment far in between and some of us learn to live like that. Somehow someday somewhere we learnt to trust our anxiety and it became a part of us. We are going to talk about one such thing which may trigger anxiety for many of us.

There are many things which may trigger one's anxiety. Such environments might vary from person to person. Many people have Conditioned Emotional Response where one might have trouble responding to emotions or can only respond under specific conditions, the fear of not being able to understand people or not being seen as normal people by others often trigger anxiety.

Panic and conflict is another common type of thing which triggers anxiety, a situation where a person with anxiety is confronted out of nowhere and is asked to decide between a conflict often triggers panic and anxiety.

Separation and Abandonment is another such situation where one might find themself in a situation where we don’t have control over our surroundings and often make us lost and the body looks to find an outlet, some control in a situation where we have no one which leads to anxiety. While some people have already suffered such things and finding themself again in a spot is the trigger for them, the feeling of losing yourself in the world of possibilities is also a problem for many of us.

To sum up what we just discussed, it does matter where we are and our environment plays an important role in triggering one’s anxiety. I would suggest finding a healthy outlet and not letting the loop begin. Sometimes just a spoon falling to the ground is enough of a trigger and sometimes it is just looking at yourself in the mirror which does it. It doesn’t matter how small or big the thing is, it is what it is.