Try to remember what you were stressed about a year ago today. Exactly.

Try naming what had you tense on this date last year. Almost nobody can, and it is not because the stress was fake. It is that very little of it survived contact with the following twelve months. Your mind treats every current worry as permanent and every past one as obviously minor, which is a strange and very consistent bug.

Write down what is sitting on you right now and put today’s date on the page. Set a reminder a year out. When it goes off you will have real evidence rather than a guess.