Do I have anxiety or did I just get too sensitive by sitting at home?
I am 28F and for the past few years I come to realize I probably have anxiety. The reason why this came to my mind now is that I started working from home almost 3 years ago and I think that's made me too comfortable. Any minor accident or an issue would cause me the anxiety. On top of that I have a reactive dog, he alone has anxiety too probably lol, he lashes out on anything and anybody because he is afraid (he's adopted and he was abused as a puppy). Sometimes I would just get anxious about taking him to the vet for a simple blood test, but I am not anxious about the process itself I get anxious about the results. I start overthinking which than gives me anxiety in my stomach and my heart starts racing. The same occurs with any accidents too, he barked at a delivery man last night and I even though I was literally there and held him to not get close to him and I know for a fact nothing besides barking happened, I keep overthinking something else happened too I feel like I am going crazy and my mind is creating worse scenarios than actually happened.
The same thing happens in any other life situations, like when I am driving and I get into bad traffic and drive accidentally too close to someone I start overthinking I might have scratched that other car or hit it, but I didn't feel it on my own car. I think this is also trauma from a minor car accident I had like two months ago where a car backed up into mine while I was going forward at the same time and I didn't realize that we hit each other.
I usually have to persuade myself nothing extremely bad happened and that if it did I would have known, like it couldn't have gone unnoticed. Then I calm down to some degree after two or three hours, but the next days are kind of hard too.
Did I get too comfortable that every minor incident is now giving the anxiety? How do I make this better, what methods help you calm down and reason with yourself in these situations?