You can be completely functional and still be anxious. You get to work. You answer the emails. You show up for your friends. You make the dinner reservation. You handle the problem. You meet the deadline. From the outside, everything looks fine. Meanwhile, your mind is running through seventeen possible scenarios. What if something goes wrong? Did I say the wrong thing? Why hasn't she responded? What if they don't like me? What if I made the wrong decision? What if something

Let’s look at what we can learn from inkblots! If you find yourself constantly preoccupied with what other people think of you, if people are judging you, worried if people are upset with you - etc - let’s think about inkblots to offer an alternate perspective. Let’s think of that psychological test where therapists take a piece of paper with an inkblot on it - and they ask the patient, “What do you see?” And looking at the same inkblot - one person may see a bird - another