According to the American Psychological Association (APA), anxiety is “an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and physical changes like increased blood pressure.”

 

According to medicalnewstoday.com, Anxiety is a normal and often healthy emotion. However, when a person regularly feels disproportionate levels of anxiety, it might become a medical disorder.

 

Anxiety disorders form a category of mental health diagnoses that lead to excessive nervousness, fear, apprehension, and worry. These disorders alter how a person processes emotions and behave, also causing physical symptoms.

 

Mild anxiety might be vague and unsettling, while severe anxiety may seriously affect day-to-day living.

Based on this description, anxiety is of different levels and degrees. Some cases of anxiety are mild and light.

 

A person in this case is held responsible for what he does or says because he is fully aware and have a voluntary will.

 

In case of severe anxiety and stress, one may have nausea or abdominal stress, feel dizzy, become detached from himself and the environment, having numbness or tingling sensations.

 

In these server cases where a person does not know what he says or commits, he is not sinful for his actions and his commitments and sayings are not effective.

 

This is based on the hadith of the Prophet (peace be upon him) in which he said, “There is no divorce or emancipation of a salve [to be effective] at a state of ighlaq” (Ahmad, Ibn Majah Abu Dawud, Al-Bayhaqi)

 

It is graded as hasan according to Albani (Irwa’: 2047). Ighlaq is madness or coercion.

 

Almighty Allah knows best.