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⌈ Secret Post #2350 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Anxiety? Panic?

[(Anonymous)]

It sounds like a mild anxiety attack to me. On the upside, since it does seem to be linked to concrete things, you can focus on them and work through them. Keep your mind on the fact that there is an end to the tunnel.

One of the things my partner does for me when I start freaking out over shit is he gives me a list of things to do. Break things down into small tasks and give yourself a timeline: "Today, I'm going to do this and this. Tomorrow, I will do that and that other thing." Don't overload yourself. Write it down and do what you've promised yourself to do, when you promised yourself to do it. Don't worry about the stuff you've set to do in the future - you know what you're going to do and when you're going to do it. If there's something like a financial situation that's worrying you, figure out what you can do about it (budgeting, picking up a part-time job, etc...), and if there's nothing to be done, then put it away. Remind yourself that you've done what you can and there's no point in worrying about it. (It doesn't stop the worry altogether, but it does help gain some control over it.)

And if you're like me and you have trouble with procrastinating or getting distracted: set yourself a time to work on something ("At noon, I will do this. When I finish, I will do the other thing.") and plan to do something to reward yourself ("Before I start on the second thing, I will get an hour to watch cat videos/read smut/play a game.") I know it can be ridiculously difficult to withhold rewards from yourself, but the trick I use is treating it like a video game: "My quest is to do This Task, and when I'm done and I turn it in, I get That Reward." It doesn't always work, but it does make stuff a little less tedious if you imagine there's a bigger picture to it all ("If I don't do this, then the Alliance wins!")

Hope some of this helps a bit. It's no fun being stressed out and worried!

Re: Anxiety? Panic?

[(Anonymous)]

Procrastination is definitely a huge part of it for me - the situation I'm in is, objectively speaking, not the worst, but it's hit at a time where I'm basically reevaluating my life and where to go from here, and having to focus on solving other problems at the same time often makes me push it all away because there's too much for me to handle and I don't know where to start. So I end up doing something stupid like marathoning tv shows instead of even simple things like doing the dishes :/ Letting go of my worries is such a struggle, but I think you're right; I'm thinking it certainly won't really help me to hold on them.

A video game, huh? I've tried rewards before and not had much luck, but looking at it like a video game sounds like an interesting approach. Maybe I should try it out.

Thanks :)