Psychology Today | 25.04.2026 03:52
If you often feel trapped in a relentless loop of tension, stress, and racing thoughts, your experience is widely shared. Drawing on thirty years of clinical practice and rigorous study into anxiety disorders, I have pinpointed three distinct cognitive drivers that consistently fuel emotional turmoil. These are more than simple tendencies; they are ingrained mental frameworks that merge to form a catalyst for psychological distress—what I call the anxiety trifecta.
