Hey everyone,

Not really sure what I'm looking for with his post but I thought maybe someone else gets this and could maybe shed some light on how they come with it.

Background... so I'm a pretty anxious person as a standard, I have general anxiety and specifically health anxiety but this is more about the general. I have a tendency to REALLY overthink situations that others wouldn't even think twice at; an example could be my boss wanting a catch up, I would jump to the most negative thing I could think of and fry my mind for days about what it could be... then it would just turn out to be a 'Hey how are you getting on' type of thing and I had nothing to worry about. So that's just an idea of where we are at.

I have a really specific one though. When there is any possibility of conflict between me and another unknown person it will really make me worried. Here's an example from today. So someone pulled out on my while I was driving, I was only doing 15mph or so approaching traffic lights and they pulled out and blocked the road sideways as they wanted to go into the lane across from me and were waiting to be let in. As I approached them they started actioning me from the window waving their hands, screwing their face up and shouting that I need to slow down etc, even thought I was doing nothing wrong and it was their fault. We then pulled up to the lights together and I didn't look at them or anything but they drove behind me for a while after, nothing aggressive or anything like that. Now that has sat with me ALL day today. Worried that they will see me in the future and confront me, remember my car, plate, see me parked up or anything etc to try and find me.

This sort of anxiety has been with me since school as I would feel sick going back to school after the holidays in case someone had stirred something up and there was conflict awaiting that I was unaware of etc.

How do people just let things like this go and not let it bother them or let it consume their day worrying about it? Right now my anxiety is really high after today and nothing even happened.

This has really thrown me off today, my GF asked me why I'm so quiet and the truth if because I have been playing that 5 seconds over and over in my head on loop, I was just too embarrassed to tell her that's the reason. FYI she FULLY knows about my anxiety and is super supportive, just didn't want to burden her with every little thing.

What's weirder is I'm actually a really confident person and will happily put myself in conflict but if I feel I can judge the outcome. If I don't know the person - like today - then I go into overdrive about it. But like at work say, if my boss was rude to me I would 100% call them out on it and tell them they do not ever speak to me like that with no second thoughts or worries and have done previously.

Any one else hold on to stuff like this? Or how do you let it go?

Thanks for taking the time to read