Rainbow, you know what struck me more out of what you T said? "Those are just thoughts I'm having and I don't have to give them so much attention." You spend what seems like an excessive amount of energy worrying about your thinking: is it normal? is it too good? is it my pattern? yadda, yadda. Seems like your T is trying to tell you to stop thinking so much. You just go round and round in circles all the time -- ruminating, over-analyzing yourself into misery. Backing away or just accepting that your thoughts are thoughts and don't have to be "solved" immediately might lessen your anxiety a great deal it would seem. I don't know. Just my observation over time. (Gotta go. Off to the pool with the kids. I'll get back to this later.)