If your brain does the thing where it goes right to the worst possible ending (the unanswered text means you’ve upset someone, the symptom means cancer, the hard year means your kid's future is ruined), this one's for you. Anxiety doesn’t just watch; it writes. And it is a phenomenal storyteller. It compresses a messy, unfinished world into a tidy story with a beginning, a middle, and a terrible end, and then it asks your body to live inside that ending as if it had already happened. Here are five questions to help you catch when your mind has turned a possibility into an acadamy award winning conclusion.