I have recently noticed that one of my coping mechanisms for my anxiety is googling the issue and looking at every single possible outcome. For example, I am calling out of work tomorrow and that makes me quite anxious. I have spent the last 45 minutes scrolling through my jobs subreddit reading every single post about calling out, sick time, etc… i honestly feel embarrassed I spent that much time doing it. I do the same thing when any issue that causes me significant anxiety comes up. I immediately google the issue and read just about every webpage on the internet about it. It’s definitely obsessive, not just like a quick google search. Sometimes I’ll scroll through the pages for days before the event that’s making me anxious. It helps relieve the stress temporarily, but sometimes makes it worse. Does anyone else do this?? What have you done to stop if you have been able to?