I keep imagining the worst
Your mind keeps rehearsing the disaster, as if picturing it enough times could somehow prepare you for it. That instinct comes from a tender place — it's fear trying to protect you from being caught off guard. But the worst case is a story, not a forecast, and you are not required to believe every story fear tells. Most of the futures you've dreaded never arrived, and this one most likely won't either.
Read one, sit with it, and draw as many more as you need.
Anxious
I keep imagining the worst
“Your mind just wrote a horror film and cast you as the victim. But it's the writer, the director, and the only one in the theater, and it can write a different ending.”
More comforting words for this feeling
“The worst case is one story out of a thousand, and your mind keeps screening only that one. Ask it, gently, to play a different reel.”
“Imagining the disaster is not the same as preparing for it. One leaves you ready; the other just leaves you exhausted before anything even happens.”
“How many of your predicted catastrophes have actually arrived? Run the real numbers. Your mind has a terrible forecasting record and keeps its job anyway.”