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What are the major red flags to look out for in yourself to know if you're starting to develop a serious mental disorder?

I don't experience any of those, but for the past year or so I have been having a lot of nightmares regarding things that I don't even think or worry about in my day to day life, and often times, those nightmares are nonsensical. I don't have anything negative going on in my life right now, in fact, things are going really well, which is what makes me worried that I may be developing something serious. I have brought this up to my doctor but he thinks that I am worrying too much about the possibility of developing a mental illness that I am causing the problem to get worse. Is he right in that I am worrying too much over nothing?

The issue here is that I have been trying to figure out what may be making me anxious and what my life problems could be, but I don't worry about anything specific and I don't have any pressing issues. For some reason the nightmares started about a year ago and happen almost every night. It's really unnerving not knowing what could be triggering this.

Great suggestion, thanks!