My thoughts become detectives when I’m low

Dear Delyara, That is the best way I can explain anxiety. My thoughts become detectives. They search for hidden meanings, missed signs, shifts in tone, evidence of rejection, evidence of failure, evidence that something is wrong even when nothing visible has happened yet. They act as if they are protecting me. Really, they are exhausting me. Today I spent far too much emotional energy trying to interpret something small that probably meant very little. I know this pattern now. That doesn’t always stop it from taking over the room.