Firstly, I will say I am an overthinker and can run to anxious easily.
In therapy, I have learned that constant checking of what you are anxious about adds to the anxiety - it doesn't help it. Its a safety behaviour. My family have had to learn to not answer my checking questions and I am calmer as a result. I do think that the constant thinking about mental health and the talking about it has been great, but not well informed. I'm a teacher and respond to loads of emails form parents (won't give specific details but scenarios that are equivalent) that are 'checking emails' - an example would be a daytime conversation like this ...
Me: Did you give your book in?
Child: Yes
Me: Ok thanks
followed by an email like this ..
Hello, my child came home upset and worried that you thought they hadn't handed their book in.
The parents are not being arsey, but instead of saying to their child " Don't worry Miss was just checking" they need it from the horses mouth, which then feeds into the constant checking safety behaviours.
I'm in a perfectly average school yet lots of us teachers are having these type of emails daily.
Where do you reckon it's coming from?