How Anxiety Consumes Us in on Problems

When we experience an intense emotion like anxiety, we are precision focused on what is potentially bothering us. If you're constantly thinking about that particular issue, that doesn't leave a whole lot of mental space to think about other things. Intense feelings of emotions activate a biological fighter flight immune response which can be amazingly helpful for dealing with potential threats. But when it's chronically activated overtime, as is the case with chronic rumination and worry and anxiety, that's when the biological systems begin to break down.