The Raw Chaos of Experience Opens The Door For Anxiety

Uncategorized Sep 12, 2025

The “raw chaos” of experience

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Perception, action, and intention don’t just passively receive reality; they impose structure on it:

Perception filters incoming stimuli into recognizable patterns.
Action gives a sense of agency and continuity (“I did this, now this happened”).
Intention projects us into the future, linking present choices to imagined outcomes.

All of this creates the experience of a coherent, mostly ordered world.

What happens if the structuring is “bad” or “random”?

If instead of organizing experience with useful, reality-tracking concepts (e.g., cause–effect, self–other), one imposes maladaptive or chaotic concepts (e.g., catastrophizing, self-blame, constant threat perception), the whole “narrative” of life gets distorted.

For example:

Anxiety primes the nervous system to scan for danger.
This changes how stimuli are perceived (ambiguous cues seem threatening).
Time can feel compressed (“always on edge”) or fragmented (“I can’t remember what I just did”).
Actions become reactive rather than intentional.
The “story of self” becomes one of vulnerability and unpredictability.

This is why anxious people often describe their lives as disordered, stuck, or spiraling — the structuring principles they’re using magnify randomness and threat instead of coherence and possibility.

Effects on one’s “journey”

In practical terms:

Decision making becomes risk-averse or erratic, limiting opportunities.
Memory and meaning get skewed toward negative or fearful events.
Identity feels unstable (“I’m always anxious” instead of “I sometimes feel anxious”).
Future orientation shrinks (“I can’t imagine things going well”).

So the same underlying “chaos” of experience that someone else might weave into a resilient, creative story can become, under anxious structuring, a narrative of perpetual crisis.

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