Under Pressure

I saw a tweet yesterday from someone who was concerned about not accomplishing their goals, and was feeling the pressure of everything about to collapse around them. It’s a familiar feeling. I have been there many times. Anxiety and depression can make you lose touch with your priorities. You start by putting off one or two little things, until you are swimming in to-do lists and everything becomes equally important— you then feel paralyzed by fear and can’t move forward. The stress of these thoughts are draining, so you end up feeling tired before you even get started.

It’s tempting to sit back and wait for the moment when the anxiety subsides and you have more energy. The reality is; the anxiety will only build until you HAVE to do something about it. Or risk failing and feeling depressed about it later, starting another cycle.

Setting goals can be hard. Especially when the world seems intent on preventing you from reaching them. Set a goal to be less angry, and watch as you become acutely aware of every infraction on your pet peeves. But this is a good thing. This allows you to deal with them one at a time. Which leads to the first tip.

Break it down

You can take any task and break it down into its many parts. Initially this seems like a bad idea because, “Look at how many more things are on my to do list now!” But what it should be doing is making them into smaller digestible pieces.

You are now in control. From here you could take on a small task to get started, and then take on a larger task that will make some of the smaller tasks easier. How does it make you feel?
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If you are feeling anxious: take 5-10 minutes to figure out why you feel like this. Write your feelings down. What scares you about doing this? Is someone telling you to do it? Do you have the feeling that you should be doing something else? How will it feel if you get it done?

Tell a Friend

This was hard for me when I was at the height of my anxiety, because sometimes my friends would ask me how that thing was going, and if I hadn’t done anything, I would shy away or snap at them to stop bothering me about it.

Good friends are there because they care. It’s rewarding to be able to share in your achievements, even if they are small. In Rainy Day Friends we mentioned there might be times when you don’t have people you can trust. If you aren’t ready to tell anyone yet, keep a list for yourself and refer back to it once in a while. See how far you’ve come.

Each small step adds up to something bigger. And you’re already kind of a big deal.