TL;DR- After many good days, I'm suddenly questioning my morals and if I'm a good/bad person based on the supposedly "wrong" things I did as a child/teen that I didn't know were "bad" back then. Can anxiety cause these kinds of thoughts?


I've had health anxiety on and off for the past one year. It could be anxiety about physical health or mental health problems.

However, recently I started with therapy and decided to practice self care again- both of which were helping me tremendously and I was finally reaching a point where I didn't worry about any health issues.

But I still had intrusive thoughts which, as advised by my therapist, I was being mindful about without getting involved with them.

But I ended up overthinking one of my intrusive thoughts which led me to questioning myself and my morals- idk how I reached this point but ugh I hate it absolutely.

Now, for the past some days, I've been questioning everything I did as a child/teen- especially the supposedly "wrong" or "bad" things which we should not and don't do as adults.

I randomly remember any memory and while as a kid, I might not have known that it's "wrong" but now I do, so I've been questioning and worrying over and overthinking about such incidents from my childhood and early teenage days way too much and it's affecting me a lot. 

And the fact that it's not a health problem makes it all seem so much more real since it's new to me. I keep questioning my "morals" or if I'm a bad peraon if I did any of those things when I was young. 

My therapist says it's just my anxiety latching onto whatever makes me worry the most but I can't believe it for some reason because my mind keeps screaming "what's wrong is wrong" and shit like that.

I keep wondering if I even deserve to get better.

Can anxiety cause these kinds of thoughts?