Catastrophizing

I need to do a long distance drive soon and I feel like I'm going to have a car crash because unfamiliar car and unfamiliar roads.

I need to get on a plane soon and I feel like I will get covid and not make it, won't be able to start work and become trapped in a covid hotspot and in an unhealthy home for months.

I am overwhelmed by the thought of having a panic attack in front of people (friends and coworkers), and I can't stop feeling broken. Even though I haven't done it yet I feel the humiliation.

They're not unrealistic scenarios anymore. They're things that really could happen. My anxiety exists so that I will be careful and cautious and make wise decisions for each of these obstacles, but my anxiety is putting the thoughts on overdrive. It is stopping me from doing the things I need to get done and making me cry and sweat at night.

How do you work with realistic situations that cause anxiety when you are already so sensitive to it?