My anxious mind

As soon as I leave the house my brain seems to like to remind me of all the possible things I’ve left on or broken.

“Left the oven on, left the gas on- the house is gonna burn down. Didn’t shut the fridge, didn’t close your window. Didn’t shut the front door properly and you forgot your keys”.

Why, does my brain have to think of all the possible things that I haven’t done. I mean I know I’ve done them but there is this kind of repetitive role play in my head of all the things I supposedly didn’t do. It makes me feel paranoid and anxious and my brain does it when I can’t do anything about it! It tells me and tells me until I have to force it to stop.

I have to constantly tell myself that I haven’t done those things. I haven’t left the oven and hob on. I am not going to kill everyone. This is just not true.

And then I have to focus on something else to make sure that I am rational and busy and not misunderstood