What you just said brings up a few questions for me –

What should we be doing to have passion that is positive? Is it really okay to not feel passion?

Also, anxiety doesn’t always need fear to get triggered, right? Even boredom can do that. Have you done anything that has helped with your anxiety?

Lastly, I’ve realised that whenever there could be a conflict, like with neighbours, about their noisy pets , instead of choosing to stay away right away, knowing they don’t change – having spoken to them before, I think for a really long time as to whether I should be doing something otherwise I’m being taken for granted. My mother rationalises that some people don’t change and let’s it be  but for me I often feel like I’m acting  out of the need to feel like I have power. To be honest, it isn’t even about what the pets are doing now, it is anxiety over how they may get nastier in the future and how I will have to feel bad then about not doing anything. I feel really  powerless as a person, so I try to avoid challenges and don’t think I can face them. So in this case, my fear of the future makes me want to do something when what I am actually experiencing in the present isn’t even the true problem I want to solve. I basically want to predict all the things that could go wrong and prevent them, because somewhere deep inside I’ve decided I won’t be able to handle things going bad. And I don’t know how I decided that about myself. DO you have any insight?And, I think this feeling of powerlessness is coupled with wanting to be acknowledged as competent and respected. Does that make sense? Does this tie into anxiety as well?