Anxiety is the way you perceive high adrenaline. If adrenaline is moderately high for too long a time, people feel anxious and wonder why. This is called free-floating anxiety. If, on the other hand, adrenaline shoots up to a very high value rapidly, and. Then decreases rapidly, the anxiety is brief but intense. This is called a panic attack. if you regularly pick a particular thing to tie the anxiety to, such as high places, thatīs called a phobia. whatīs the problem? whatīs wrong with the life-saving response to a tiger on the road?. The human body, because itīs a wonderful self-adjusting system has a mechanism called adaptation. If you repeatedly have emergencies the body learns to dump larger and larger amounts of adrenaline at the slightest hint of an emergency. The adrenal gland puts out about 60 different hormones- repeated requests for adrenaline dumps will affect all the others. A hair-trigger adrenaline response is not what you want in modern life. What happens in modern life is that several times a day many people have low-blood-sugar emergencies. This leads to adrenaline dumping and anxiety, it also leads to hormonal imbalances. Anxiety is the way you perceive high adrenaline. If adrenaline is moderately high for too long a time, people feel anxious and wonder why. This is called free-floating anxiety. If, on the other hand, adrenaline shoots up to a very high value rapidly, and. Then decreases rapidly, the anxiety is brief but intense. This is called a panic attack. if you regularly pick a particular thing to tie the anxiety to, such as high places, thatīs called a phobia. whatīs the problem? whatīs wrong with the life-saving response to a tiger on the road?. The human body, because itīs a wonderful self-adjusting system has a mechanism called adaptation. If you repeatedly have emergencies the body learns to dump larger and larger amounts of adrenaline at the slightest hint of an emergency. The adrenal gland puts out about 60 different hormones- repeated requests for adrenaline dumps will affect all the others. A hair-trigger adrenaline response is not what you want in modern life. What happens in modern life is that several times a day many people have low-blood-sugar emergencies. This leads to adrenaline dumping and anxiety, it also leads to hormonal imbalances.