((((((((Dustin))))))))

I really think you need to do more active things that get you out of your environment/house when you feel like that. You have to physically change your situation sometimes to overcome anxious/obsessive thoughts. Activities with other people are best when (as EM correctly put it) you start to "spiral" like that, you need something to pull you out of the anxiety/obsessive zone. Watching movies and reading books can only do that for so long, as you are still left with only your own thoughts. If the anxiety is strong, it could overtake your thoughts and interfere with reading books and watching TV/movies, leaving you right back where you were.

Hang in there Dustin.