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So f##king anxious!
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Maybe. Probably varies from person to person, as one would expect. Excessive anxiety is a real problem for some though, with, AFAIU, plenty of actual diagnoses going around for such symptoms.
In my own case, as a recently loosely tentatively self-diagnosed ND, anxiety was one of the obvious problems and give-aways. If there's some possibility of something not being "correct", a pile of obsessiveness and anxiety around that issue immediately ensues, not just around whether it will occur correctly, but also around what I can or have to do to make sure it will be done correctly. Whether it's punctuality or cleaning something or learning something. Sometimes I get anxious about whether I can actually remember anything and actually try to just sit there and remember everything I know, which obviously doesn't work (our brains don't work that way) and causes me anxiety.
something not being "correct"
make sure it will be done correctly
Dude you hit the nail.
I definitely get this.
On reflection, there was definitely. Anxiety about somehow arriving in a situation I didn't like or was outside of my control. But no actual reality about that at all
Yea ... the control side of it is a big factor too I think.
And for me, it's not like I can't "go with the flow" at all ... it's just that can only happen in the right situation where all/any circumstances are going to be ok or there aren't external requirements like being functional for work the next day or whatever that have to be done correctly.