Get In A Hurry? Feel Rushed?

[stevet]

Very often, I feel rushed doing even the most simple tasks - examples are cleaning, brushing my teeth and the list goes on. I catch myself and know that I’m treating something as an emergency and try to be intentional about slowing down. This gets the anxiety going like nothing else. It also consumes a lot of energy. If I’m power washing outdoors, which is something I enjoy, I’m capable of doing it for hours only to start getting signals from my body that my back is about to go out.

Similar experiences? Feel rushed with no legitimate reason?


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[Cuchculan]

Used to rush myself with a lot of things when out. Because I didn't want to be out. Quicker I got them done, quicker I got home. My interaction with people was rushed too. I was stutter badly. Then I began to slow everything down. I asked myself what the hurry was? When I had to talk to people I would take a deep breath. Compose myself. Take a step back, if needed. Then talk. Like I was taken back control of everything I was doing. It was not a race. Simple as that. The more I slowed myself down, the better I felt about myself. I found I could do everything and be calm about it all. That felt good. Just from doing things at my own pace. In my mind nobody was ever going to make me rush when doing anything. Flipped it right over from how I used to be.

 

[FinneousRex]

Very often, I feel rushed doing even the most simple tasks - examples are cleaning, brushing my teeth and the list goes on. I catch myself and know that I’m treating something as an emergency and try to be intentional about slowing down. This gets the anxiety going like nothing else. It also consumes a lot of energy. If I’m power washing outdoors, which is something I enjoy, I’m capable of doing it for hours only to start getting signals from my body that my back is about to go out.

Similar experiences? Feel rushed with no legitimate reason?


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Might be a control thing. I know I rush myself to do things, even stupid little things, cause it gives me control over small things in life so the big things I can’t control don’t freak me out as much. But realistically it causes me more stress. So it’s counterintuitive.