Emotion

On Monday, during second hour, I had what the nurse classified as an anxiety attack. While its roots may lay in the beginnings of a sickness, I hadn't even had any of the symptoms for it yet. What is the purpose of anxiety? I realize that nervousness is something you get before a test or an important event, embarrassment is what you feel after doing something others consider riduculous (or what you consider others to think is ridiculous), and that fear is what you feel before a snarling dog.

What I don't understand is the anxiety. It had no positive effects. I understand that neither does embarrassment, but it at least is an emotion that makes sense in the way of social life, as well as nervousness. Fear is the fight or flight distress signal, and is rather understandable. Anxiety, on the other hand, simply caused a teary response that had me breathing rather quickly and shivering uncontrollably. Later on, I got the sickness I am now recovering from, but I doubt that is normally the point of anxiety.

It had me thinking that emotion is rather unreliable, especially when the nurse was asking why I was freaking out and I found that I had no answer because Spanish was one of my favorite (and easiest) classes. There was nothing t boe anxious about. I figured to myself it out to happen in History because of the notes that I had not done yet or in TOK because of the four papers we're trying to write. Instead, it happened in the class that was the safe zone of my day, the one with the least amount of stress you could say.

Perhaps this is a more personal matter, but it is an example of the unreliablity of emotion. It's all I've had to think about for the past 3 days.