Re:Anxiety Looks Different in Men
by wpietri on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:21PM
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For this audience, I would add that anxiety is in some sense often a career positive. During the years I spent as a sysadmin, the continuous feeling that something was about to gowrong and I really needed to prepare for it was useful to my employers. Even if it was bad for me, my relationships, and my physical health.
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The worst thing about this is that realizing it isn't necessarily the first step to improving your condition. On the contrary, it can lead to cultivating your own anxiety, because it gives you opportunities you wouldn't get with a more healthy work life...
Same job, same problem. The solution was to understand that I am not really helping anyone. I'm just hiding problems and helping incompetents make money and stay in the market when they deserve to fail.
So my new approach: fix it and make it public once, let it fail afterwards if nobody cares.
See also insecure overachiever: https://hbr.org/2018/02/if-youre-so-successful-why-are-you-s...
I often times think my anxiety is what my employers value the most in me and it drives me mad :)
Re:Anxiety Looks Different in Men
by faitswulff on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @08:12AM
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Good ol' capitalism, extracting value from your mental health disorders.