Reframe Financial Anxiety as a Set of Specific Questions

Financial anxiety is rarely about the current bank balance. It is usually about a more specific underlying concern: running out, being judged, losing control, or repeating a pattern. But because the anxiety is diffuse, it resists ordinary financial management. This identifies the most likely underlying concern for your situation and converts it into specific questions you can investigate, because anxiety that has a concrete question attached to it is smaller than anxiety that is just a feeling.

I feel anxious about money. The feeling is diffuse and hard to pin down, but the general sense is that things are not fine, even when I look at my bank account and it is not immediately terrible.

Help me translate this anxiety into a set of specific, investigable questions rather than a general dread. Specifically:
1. What are the three or four most common underlying concerns that feel-based financial anxiety typically represents when examined (running out of money, being judged, losing control, repeating a parent's pattern, or others)
2. Help me identify which of these I am most likely to be experiencing based on: {PERSONAL_CONTEXT}
3. For my most likely concern, give me two or three specific questions I can actually investigate (with real numbers or behaviours)
4. What does resolution of this anxiety look like in practice: not the absence of worry, but what would make it smaller and more manageable

Do not tell me to budget. I can budget. The problem is the anxiety, not the spreadsheet.