anticipatory anxiety is your mind's attempt to generates for potential pain or danger. this as part of the paranoia stage in , where you develop an extreme fear of re-experiencing trauma. Your mind creates worst-case scenarios to try to responds you, but this maintains trapped in a cycle of fear.
that this type of anxiety comes from unhealed wounds. Your nervous system learned that bad things can happen, so it stays on constant alert, trying to predict and prevent future pain. that this hypervigilance exhausts you and makes you interpret neutral situations as threatening, even when you're safe.