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Anxiety leading me to over work (I think) Would appreciate constructive advice!

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JingleTangle · 31/08/2021 19:37

I have fairly severe anxiety which is contributing to high blood pressure. I've seen a GP who referred me for online counselling which TBH didn't have much impact. I'm trying to address the anxiety in a number of different ways.
I work in the events industry so we're just starting to gear up again. It's a nice creative job but quite stressful at times and I job share a management role with an excellent woman. On the one hand my anxiety actually helps me plan ahead for business continuity (because I can be relied upon to envisage various disasters and consider the various angles) but on the other hand I am working a fair bit of unpaid overtime sorting stuff out for covid and also emailing staff (and I might have texted a couple out of hours, I know I know) because I am fretting about the events the following day and spotting issues that haven't been addressed.(Not at the level of the toilet running out of paper, but that the catering hasn't been booked or one of the venues has closed/ deposit not been paid / materials not ordered type of thing).
I'm worried that my anxiety is ultimately going to piss off my colleagues. I'm working really hard to get things sorted but I can't just leave stuff and keep my fingers crossed.
Can anyone offer any advice on managing anxiety at work? Either as a manager of people or from personal experience etc?

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JingleTangle · 01/09/2021 07:45

Hopeful bump

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blackteaplease · 01/09/2021 07:52

Was your online counselling CBT based? My anxiety manifests like this and one of the things that helps is a worry tree process www.getselfhelp.co.uk/worry-tree/
This helps you sort through your worries and categorise them and learn to accept what you can't control.

But it also sounds like you could usefully feed some of this back into work at an earlier stage of event planning as fundamental errors shouldn't be happening, and you shouldn't need to be awake last minute worrying about them.

hopeishere · 01/09/2021 10:07

If fundamental stuff like catering hasn't been booked then no wonder you're anxious. You need to sort out your processes so you're confident it's all ok.

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