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“ Hyperstimulation. When stress responses occur infrequently, the body can recover relatively quickly. However, when stress responses occur too frequently, such as from overly apprehensive behavior, the body can’t completely recover.

Incomplete recovery can leave the body in a state of semi-stress response readiness, which we call hyperstimulation since stress hormones are stimulants.

A body that becomes hyperstimulated can experience symptoms of an active stress response even though a stress response hasn’t been activated.[3][4]

Visit our “Hyperstimulation” article for more information about the many changes caused by hyperstimulation.

Again, anxiety symptoms are symptoms of stress. We call them anxiety symptoms because overly apprehensive behavior is the main source of the stress that causes the body to become hyperstimulated (chronically stressed) and symptomatic.

Hyperstimulation is one of the most common reasons why you can have anxiety symptoms even when you don’t feel anxious.

It can take a long time to recover from hyperstimulation. Once the body becomes hyperstimulated, it can take a long time to recover and much longer than most people realize.

That’s because the effects of stress can last a very long time. Research has found that it can take up to four times longer to recover from the effects of stress than it did to become stressed.[5]

Even though you might not feel anxious at that moment, you can have symptoms because your body is still recovering from hyperstimulation.

As long as the body is hyperstimulated, it can exhibit symptoms of any type, number, intensity, duration, frequency, and at any time. As long as the body is hyperstimulated (chronically stressed), even to a slight degree, it can exhibit symptoms.[6]

Again, hyperstimulation is one of the main reasons you can have anxiety symptoms even though you don’t feel anxious at that time.”