Even when I don’t have dry heaving ( previous post) ever since I was a child I hated having time. I dwells on stuff and gets so anxious then gets anxious cause I’m anxious. For example if I was at work and somebody said do this now I would no trouble. If they said do this in 8 hours then I be dwelling about it all day and thinking what could go wrong. And hard to keep mind off it. Anybody get like this and how do u cope with it?
Is this a weird kind of anxiety?
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Hi Peter,
I get that too, it is easy to get lost with the fear of failure. Like you said, the more time we have the more we can dwell on what-if scenarios. We have to remind ourselves they are what-ifs, and that means we are getting anxious about something that hasn't happened yet.
From here I have two ways to go about it. Either I refuse to delve or go straight to the point I am afraid of. I usually start by reminding myself that in 3 days it won't matter. Just like the last things I really got anxious about before and felt like life stoppers don't matter right now. They are in the past and so will be the case with this. This usually helps me to calm down.
If I decide to face my fear I'll try to go past what would happen if I failed. Like what is the worse outcome I am fearing and what will I do straight after. Usually, I find that I have ways to deal with it. I know how to fix my mistakes or they are not that likely to happen at all because I know how to do my job.
I hope this helps.
I get that too, it is easy to get lost with the fear of failure. Like you said, the more time we have the more we can dwell on what-if scenarios. We have to remind ourselves they are what-ifs, and that means we are getting anxious about something that hasn't happened yet.
From here I have two ways to go about it. Either I refuse to delve or go straight to the point I am afraid of. I usually start by reminding myself that in 3 days it won't matter. Just like the last things I really got anxious about before and felt like life stoppers don't matter right now. They are in the past and so will be the case with this. This usually helps me to calm down.
If I decide to face my fear I'll try to go past what would happen if I failed. Like what is the worse outcome I am fearing and what will I do straight after. Usually, I find that I have ways to deal with it. I know how to fix my mistakes or they are not that likely to happen at all because I know how to do my job.
I hope this helps.