The person with “anxious ADD” often starts the day, or any moment of repose, by rapidly scanning his or her mental horizon in search of something to worry about. Once a subject of worry has been located, the individual locks in on it like a heat-sensing rocket and doesn’t let go. No matter how trivial the subject or how painful the worry, the individual keeps the worry alive, returning to it magnetically, obsessively. Some of these people do in fact have obsessive-compulsive disorder, but the majority do not.
