We make ourselves crazy by indulging crazy-making thoughts. We make ourselves anxious and terrified by inventing a cascade of ever-increasingly frightening future possibilities that are extremely unlikely to happen and then reacting to them as if they are certain to happen and that we will be helpless to deal with them. Point being: We have a choice to be a victim of our thoughts, to be controlled by our thoughts -- OR-- to control our thoughts and discard those that we do not need to think about or fear.