I made a mistake at work the other day and told my supervisor about it. She said it honestly wasn’t a big deal and to keep that in mind in the future, so I don’t make the same mistake. For a person without anxiety, that would be the end of it. But for me, that didn’t make me feel any better. Now I feel like my supervisor is mad/disappointed in me—especially since I just had a performance review yesterday where she said how great I was doing. 

I’m jumping to conclusions in my head that somehow this mistake is gonna make it’s way up the ladder and I’m gonna get in trouble and get fired—which I know is ridiculous. And I just can’t believe I made such a stupid mistake and now I can’t stop thinking about it and its really ruined my performance for the rest of the workday today and now I feel like I’m doing terrible. 

Now I’ve hyped this problem up in my head to the point where I keep checking my email/voicemail expecting an email/call from my supervisor’s boss about how much trouble I’m in  (which I know won’t happen cause I’ve made the problem bigger in my head and she has way more important things to worry about). 

Reading this back, it really sounds ridiculous and irrational, but that’s how my mind works. Just needed to “vent”.