Worrying basically comes down to wanting one’s life to go perfect and to fit into your ideal of what should and should not happen;

chronic fearful thinking often comes back down to feeling the need to focus our energy and attention on a potential threat so we can protect ourselves from it. We imagine that if we are worried, anxious, or angry about it, it will remain within our awareness and therefore cannot surprise us. We can retain some control over it.

Chronic worry doesn’t alert you to problems that need solving. It interferes with problem solving. If you experience chronic worry, your attention is focused on unlikely hypothetical future disasters, rather than current situations that require a solution. Chronic worries don’t get solved because there really isn’t anything to solve. The worry just