Anticipatory Anxiety

To be anxious is to experience persistent concerns or fears or worries about something specific, or about life in general.

Many of us feel anxious when we're preparing for a driving exam or about to board a plane, and it's also common to feel anxious when the world feels dangerous and uncertain: no specific worry, just a vague cloud of potential horrible outcomes that weighs on our minds.

Anticipatory anxiety is a preemptive version of the same.