That’s the baseline function of anxiety but it can get out of hand.
Anxiety that motivates you to accomplish a task then disappears after is good and healthy. I like this anxiety [after the fact]!
Anxiety that causes you to break down and freeze at the thought of the task is unhealthy. This may contribute to burnout but is generally an anxiety disorder.
I’ve had both. The latter is very real and difficult to handle as it can be self inducing. That you have to fight through the freeze and gaslight yourself, and the thought of that is impossible to handle.
That’s the baseline function of anxiety but it can get out of hand.
Anxiety that motivates you to accomplish a task then disappears after is good and healthy. I like this anxiety [after the fact]!
Anxiety that causes you to break down and freeze at the thought of the task is unhealthy. This may contribute to burnout but is generally an anxiety disorder.
I’ve had both. The latter is very real and difficult to handle as it can be self inducing. That you have to fight through the freeze and gaslight yourself, and the thought of that is impossible to handle.