>> Anxiety about problems often leads to rumination, which causes more anxiety. It can be a bad feedback loop. In a rumination cycle, people generally don't see

>> Anxiety about problems often leads to rumination, which causes more anxiety. It can be a bad feedback loop. In a rumination cycle, people generally don't seek out new information, so their mind spends time analyzing and re-analyzing the same incomplete information. I once got in that cycle, ruminating on possible interpretations of a situation. It can really bring you down. I noticed that each of my possible interpretations produced a different (strong) emotional response and concluded that was driving a "need to know". There is a thing in psychology called "intolerance of uncertainty" and for me the emotional uncertainty was driving the rumination. So when ruminating, ask yourself "why is this so important to me?" If you can't answer that, get some distance from it before the rumination bring you down. In my case I knew that the answer to "why is this important to me?" was itself very important to understand so I kept at it until I had my answer to that.