That's your experience and where you're starting. I would just seek to accept that. The problem isn't the troubled mind. The problem is the thinking about the troubled mind. Its the story we tell ourselves, not the experience itself.
Anxiety for example. Most people that are anxious aren't just anxious. They are anxious about getting anxious and so there becomes another layer to the drama. But which one consumes them? The first stage of anxiety is the physiological symptoms usually along with the belief systems attached to the thoughts that trigger anxiety but then your thinking about the anxiety hitches a ride and now it takes the wheel and so you're no longer dealing with the anxiety, because the triggering event is now in the past. Now you're dealing with the thinking about the anxiety. You're anxious about getting anxious. This could go on and on until you're anxious about getting anxious about getting anxious about getting anxious. The initial blip has long gone but now you're in a negative thought loop perpetuating the state of mind that you originally started in, or anticipated. The belief system is fuelling the continuation of your discomfort, not the actual original trigger.
Its the thoughts you could try to recognise and then try and detach from because they are at narrate the original trigger. The belief that you're unsettled turns into thought after thought after thought that reinforces it but these are just thoughts, passing thoughts. It doesn't imply you're more unsettled. It may imply you envisioning the worst case scenario that being unsettled means something fatalistic about you or something. Again, these are beliefs, thoughts.
You're only unsettled if you cannot accept and attempt to run from this content in your mind. Its a belief after all and so you're running from your thoughts. There is a place you feel you should be and then there's the place you are right now. You want to be in the good place in your mind but you're conflicted when you realize youre in the bad. If you can accept you're here right now and there's nowhere else you need to be, the weight of your belief about being unsettled diminishes.
The original trigger that started the whole thing off fades away but what is left is the story you tell yourself. And its just a story! Nothing else! Our minds chatter all the time but we forget to remember that our monkey minds are not concrete speakers of truth and reality. This is the paradox of being an evolved chip I guess. Understanding the chattering is just chattering can disarm the beliefs that come attached to whatever triggers you into a state of being unsettled. And now you're just unsettled and that's far more easier to deal with than the narrative that piggybacks along. Likewise if you're anxious. You're just anxious. Not the hjdbdjdjdnxjenenskdishebsnxjxkdiebsbdkwnxjdiwmsl bla that comes along with the anxiety. Its the dhdjensnxienejekenxndkekwjdbxusjsb bla that shades our anxiety in a colour that makes it worse.
I've seen the goddamn Dalai Lama!! I love the Eastern religions/philosophies (particularly Taoism) but my mind is so unsettled it's ridiculous, and if it knows I'm trying to calm it down it just throws a tantrum.
