...when the thing you were working on for the last good while turns out to just... not be the right thing to do, and now you have to set down all of that and like, make a 90 degree rotation and do another thing, but all you can hear is the like... grenade whine screech that is your mental transmission grinding gears. Which inevitably leads to anxiety about doing the new thing, and avoidant behaviors, because if you never do the new thing, certainly you cannot fail at it, right? 🤦🏻♀️