Strange work anxiety

Yeh toh mere wala scene hai.

Happens to all of us. When you have low system context or haven't solved completely new complex problems, you will feel anxious. Think about the system and the requirements upfront. Ask as many clarifications as needed to everyone involved. Outline what you're going to do and get it validated. If possible, do a small POC to check feasibility. These steps would help most of the time.

It's natural for humans to feel anxious about uncertainty. 1) Spend 1 or 2 hours focussed completely on solving the problem. This involves thinking + searching online. This will avoid u overthinking later on since u've actually researched about it and the problem is more known to u now than before (even if it's not solved yet) 2) During ur free time if the problem comes to mind, consciously train ur mind to realise that thinking about it won't benefit u in any way. It takes alot of mental effort to do it for the first few times but it becomes much easier later on 3) Talk to ur family/roomates at home to get ur mind away from work

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Try Naamjap or chanting some holy matra. That will relieve all your stress.

Isn't everyone like this?

I can relate but little less extreme as u stated u might get to point of not feeling hungry. Probably reach out for help in such scenarios sooner than later. Otherwise try to get on a train of thought where u do see it achievable asap. I am not sure if this behaviour will ever end. Maybe with time we become mature enough to realize this is part and parcel of being in this field.

Anxiety is more common than we think. You’re not alone. There are few things about anxiety that if you learn once, will help regardless of what has triggered it. 1. First is: fear doesn’t mean danger. Even though it can feel so scary, a lot of times it’s just a feeling. There’s no big danger. So let yourself feel the fear without rationally believing it. 2. Anxiety is threat-perception turned on: once it’s triggered your brain is on threat finding mode. It will look for threats everywhere, it will not feel safe letting you relax because it’s convinced there might be danger. It’s trying to help you. Remember this next time and let this part of your brain alone. Don’t indulge it, the worst is when you become scared of anxiety itself. Then your brain sees being anxious as a threat so you stay stuck in threat finding mode. 3. Rumination doesn’t help: anxiety wants you to sit and think and think and think. Just so you can find some way out of your perceived danger. Often it makes things worse. The way to turn the threat-finding off is to move brains focus elsewhere. The more you focus on the threat, you will stay anxious. The more you act like everything is okay, and life is safe (chilling, enjoying, connecting, hobbies), the more threat perception will go down. 4. Understand triggers: having said all the above, there is probably some underlying reason certain events trigger anxiety. So do try to understand where that’s coming from and any unconscious deeper fears you may have. But learn how to do that little by little without ruminating. All this helped me go from very high anxiety months to now no bother at all. Hope it helps in anyway! There are amazing accounts on insta that can teach more about anxiety.