I am a very anxious, uptight person but recently I feel like it has gotten a lot worse. I don't like the type of person it makes me be as it makes me feel quite irritable.
I am always envious of others who are so much more laid back and are able to deal with things with a positive attitude. I find myself catastrophizing a lot and worrying about things unnecessarily. For example, this evening I am feeling stressed and anxious because I cut my hand without realising which meant I did not go my OTT wound cleaning immediately. I know that logically that it is not a big deal as I cleaned the cut once I saw it and I have a functioning immune system but my mind immediately jumps to the worst case scenarios, the kind of 1 in a million stories you read about where someone sadly dies of sepsis from a minor cut.
As you can imagine where something minor like a cut makes me stressed I am constantly being stressed by new things nearly everyday. I just don't know how to train my mind to stop being so negative?