One of the most common features of anxiety is something called anticipatory anxiety, where anxiety increases just as a result of thinking about what's on the horizon. One thing we know about this form of advance anxiety is that the reality of the feared event or situation is almost always much less t...


Thank you for the suggestions. I'm going to try this and let you know how it works. I get extremely anxious before I drive somewhere new and before I go into my therapist's office. Maybe this will help enable me to calm down beforehand.