I use a to-do list to remember important tasks. But if I am anxious about a task, just looking at the list triggers my anxiety. - eviltoast

Often I end up closing the list and immediately turning to self-soothing. And because there’s no way to know in advance if a task on the list will give me anxiety, this often results in my list being not just unusable but unreadable, preventing me from doing or even remembering the non-anxiety tasks on the same list.

  • HubertManne@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    I do that without even having a list. sometimes I have anxiety at looking at my email because I keep a bunch to remind me of things I have to do even emailing myself to make a task. so I guess I sorta do have a list.