hypervigilant, always watching for danger or problems, drained, feeling emotionally and mentally exhausted, catastrophize, imagine the worst possible outcome, ruminate, think about something again and again, anticipatory anxiety, worry about something before it happens, intrusive thoughts, unwanted thoughts that keep coming back, fight-or-flight response, the body’s reaction to danger (real or imagined), avoidance behavior, staying away from situations that cause anxiety, emotional withdrawal, pulling away from people and activities, gradual exposure, slowly facing feared situations to reduce fear, maladaptive coping, ways of coping that actually make problems worse, affective forecasting, predicting how you will feel in the future (often inaccurately), metacognition, thinking about your own thinking patterns, allostatic load, the body’s “wear and tear” from long-term stress, palpitations, the sensation of your heart pounding, fluttering, racing, or skipping beats, onset, the beginning of something, especially something unpleasant.

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