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I relate heavily to this, but I know that I'm an anxious person. So I absolutely appreciate when the people around me provide context for why they're messaging
by Version467 4y ago
I relate heavily to this, but I know that I'm an anxious person. So I absolutely appreciate when the people around me provide context for why they're messaging me and I've also gotten my close friends and family to text me before they call me.
However I also know that it is not on them to deal with my anxiety. That's on me and I need to actively work on managing my anxiety instead of relying on the people around me to do that for me.
It's always difficult to infer someones character from a few lines of text, but it seems fairly obvious that the author has not yet understood that they are (contrary to their own belief) prone to anxious thoughts.
Some comments here make this out to be an extreme character flaw, or think this is somehow an indicator that society is going downhill, but having anxious thoughts is not inherently a bad thing. Being unaware of your own tendency to produce anxious thoughts however is a bad thing. Anxious thoughts that aren't actively managed will influence your behavior and your decision making processes.
The usual advice is of course meditation, but just knowing being aware of your own anxious thoughts is often times enough to combat them.