Thin Slices of Anxiety

I now just see these scary thoughts as my mind releasing all this fearful/anxious energy that I previously built up inside.

we must learn to differentiate between fears and anxieties. Fears are states of apprehension which focus on isolated and recognizable dangers so that they may be judiciously appraised and realistically countered. Anxieties are diffuse states of tension (caused by a loss of mutual regulation and a consequent upset in libidinal and aggressive control