Anxiety

Anxiety could get triggered when a demand is made on our energy and we are not in a resourceful state of mind.

It would be apt to either deny that request/demand altogether or schedule it to a later time when we are in a better state of mind to handle it.

But then kicks in the inability to say NO, the fear of being abandoned for setting healthy boundaries, the knack to catostrophize even minor discomforts.

This catastrophizing happens at an intense scale if we have been through some sort of a trauma.

During school days, when you had a headache, applying Vicks on the forehead was more than enough. If it was unbearable pain, mom would give a half of a Metacin tablet. But as an adult, having experienced migraine for 2-3 days every week for more than a year and having recovered from it reasonably well, our minds start diagnosing any minor headache as migraine ( if not as brain tumor, thanks to hypochondria). 

And the same goes to anxiety and depression. There might be moments when we feel just bored or sleepy and a not so great mood accompanying that half awake state of mind. But the diagnosis just screams loud, l'm having a relapse of my depression/anxiety symptoms. 

And then the mind gives a tired look, "Dude, everyone gets to experience bad days once in a while. Let me have mine peacefully without having to do any root cause analysis, please."