Anxiety is thinking about the worst possible outcome that has yet to happen. This tendency in clinical psychology is sometimes called maximizing. Can there not be a healthy level of anxiety? Anxious as an emotion doesn't have to be at its extreme, Angela says.
What is the relationship between “catastrophizing” and anxiety? How did Angela react when her mother came close to drowning? And how can you gain perspective when the worst-case scenario is all you can visualize?