Why am I anxious for no reason?

Why are emotions and reason usually considered a dichotomy?

• Whenever people talk about decision making, personalities, brain hemispheres, arts and literature. A person, or a decision, or a literary era are supposed to be either rational or emotional. The way this is usually presented emotion and rationality/reason are incompatible opposites. People who support emotional decision-making sometimes bring up a straw rationalist, pointing out that it's not good to ignore your emotions and that reason cannot comprehend what's important in life and that you have to listen to your gut. People who support rational decision-making, in turn, sometimes bring up a straw emotionalist, pointing out how illogical emotions are, how easily they can manipulate you, that you have to make decisions only based on principles and logic. However, I think the ideal approach to decision making combines rationality and emotionality, and I just can't see why you have to decide between the two of them. I think intuition and emotions are just facts a person knows only subconsciously, or wishes and desires a person doesn't know they have, or doesn't want to admit. I think we know much more about the circumstances of a decision than we consciously think about when trying to make a rational decision. If all the obvious facts say "do it" but our intuition says "don't", it means there is a good reason not to do it. Therefore I agree with the emotionalists to the extent that you cannot just ignore your intuition. Intuition matters. You cannot make a decision only based on the obvious facts. However this does not mean you can stop at this point and listen only to your intuition. If your intuition says "no" you can't just accept there must be some good reason not to do it and call it a day, but you must try to figure out what this reason is. Analyze your emotions and be introspective. Once you have found all the points you've been subconsciously considering, they become a conscious fact and you can consider them consciously the way you've dealt with all the other obvious factors. Of course it might turn out that what you find is less pretty and noble than you'd like. The hidden reason your intuition said "no" might be selfish or otherwise show your character in a bad light. Still, only when you really know your hidden intentions, you can decide if it's worth listening to them, you can decide if you want to be selfish or not. Maybe all things considered the selfish decision is the better one in this specific case, but making the selfish decision for a good reason is much better than making the selfish decision just because you feel like it. Why is this (in my opinion very obvious) way to make a decision never considered in a discussion about rationality and emotions? Why does everyone think emotions and rationality are two distincts things? And, if they are somewhat distinct, on a scale between rationality and emotions, where do you think the overall approach I presented would rank?

• Answer:

  Emotions are automatic and difficult to control, they cloud your judgement and could impair your decision making by rushing to take a decision since emotions are very strong and make you see things in different ways, when in love everything is good, when angry everything is irritating, when sad everything is gray. Reason on the other hand, does not depend upon subconcious personality treats or individual feelings but only logic, so it is unbiased and objective.