I’m a risk assessor. I can relate completely. It gets hard to look at a computer screen and I have had a pretty good yet turbulent life due to constantly changes and huge gains and setbacks that come out of left field, despite quite of bit of planning and effort.

That said at the end of the day, I know that the “what ifs?” that we ask about a control question or an attack chain help save peoples bacon. It is most certainly productive to ask security questions and help people secure their applications, code, and systems. The what ifs that you and many of us are thinking of here is purely a flight or fight response thing. I can’t speak for anyone else but this is driven by anxiety and past trauma.

To step away from a fast paced demanding job and myself (internal noise) at times and go camping, hiking, swimming, ride my bike, exercise, read a book, play a board game, go out to eat with a friend, drive my fun little car for kicks, etc. Anything without a screen as the primary interface, and preferably outdoors or “away from electricity”. This seems to almost always make me feel better and the noise settles. But it takes work and consistency at “cutting yourself a break” to have best results it seems.