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gibbles @gibbles11/29/2022, 3:41 AM

dear chosters,

i've been turning one of my weird brain habits around in my head for a while (months? years?) and have yet to reach an understanding i am satisfied with so i am crowdsourcing ideas

so, genuinely: does anyone else feel very anxious whenever they have anything planned later in the day, even if that thing is something you want to do? like, all throughout the day you can't stop thinking about thing you have to do, and can't possibly sit and relax for a while even if it's hours away?

i feel like i've heard people express things like this before, but not a lot of people have delved into why their brains might do that or ways to cope with it, and that's what i'm interested in. even if you don't have a solution, i like theory crafting about brain habits, so i'm open to ideas in general.

i'm worried the answer may just be 'yeah that happens, you just have to learn to live with the anxiety' (which i guess is most of life anyways)

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Nibble 🦄@NibbleNueva11/29/2022, 3:59 AM

(disclaimer: I am not a psychologist nor any kind of neuroscientist. Just a nerd)

The normal (typical) part, I'd say, is feeling emotions in anticipation of some significant future event. The diverging part would have to be what exactly those emotions are, and where they come from.

I couldn't really say how much of it is hardwired into your brain versus how much is learned from your upbringing, but my gut intuition says that it is a bit of both. You can be more naturally predisposed to feeling the negative kind of anxious, but you can also learn to manage and control it as you grow up, to the point where it doesn't affect you as much.

But then it can also be possible for an otherwise neurotypical person to develop bad reactions to future events, especially if they are consistently bombarded with negative stimuli.

In short, I would guess that it isn't any one thing. It's probably highly contextual. To get any more specific, you'd have to dissect a specific person's life and see "how did they get here".

Stormy @requirecookie11/29/2022, 5:57 AM

Oh, absolutely.

If I have an appointment at 3pm, my day is waiting for that appointment. If I want to do something at 11am, I might put it off "because I don't have enough time".

I've often seen it associated with ADHD, if that helps