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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.

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[โ€“] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Congratulations on making that observation. I know I frequently have problems because I'm just oblivious to my own mental state. I'm to busy with what I am doing that I don't pay attention to what I am doing. So good job noticing. The best suggestion I have I to make time to observe the emotion. Next time it happens to make a few minutes of time to just experience and think about that feeling.

[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks. That's what I've been doing today, post-realization, is sitting with the knowledge and how it makes me feel.