Focus only on behavior that you can observe

Anticipatory Anxiety

One reassuring fact about anticipatory anxiety is that it often concerns something that’s already happened. It’s usually based on a past experience of something that didn’t go well (intolerance of unpleasant somatic/cognitive sensations = child's tantrum). Those past memories are replayed over and over, probably embellished with a few new disasters that never actually happened, and the whole unhappy event is projected into your future where you see it happening again.

Emotional Reasoning