Re:Anxiety is in your body, not your mind
by WWGaussDo on Sunday April 11, 2021 @08:29PM
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So good to see a story about the physical aspects of anxiety at the top of hacker news!
I’ve struggled with anxiety my whole software career. I finally identified the big triggers for me - morning standup when I was late on a ticket, when a test would inexplicably fail, when a coworker wound comment in a PR asking me to redo a chunk of work that I knew would take more time. And I identified them based on how my BODY felt.
And once I could identify the actually environmental triggers, I could start to resolve them.
A lot like this article talks about! My conscious mind wasn’t in control of my anxiety, and the looping thoughts in my head didn’t even have much to do with the trigger. They were the symptom, not the cause.
Another software engineer friend and I are starting a company to help software engineers reduce stress and anxiety! We’ve seen some pretty miraculous results so far.
We’d love to hear from all of you anxious software engineers :)
I’ve struggled with anxiety my whole software career. I finally identified the big triggers for me - morning standup when I was late on a ticket, when a test would inexplicably fail, when a coworker wound comment in a PR asking me to redo a chunk of work that I knew would take more time. And I identified them based on how my BODY felt.
And once I could identify the actually environmental triggers, I could start to resolve them.
A lot like this article talks about! My conscious mind wasn’t in control of my anxiety, and the looping thoughts in my head didn’t even have much to do with the trigger. They were the symptom, not the cause.
Another software engineer friend and I are starting a company to help software engineers reduce stress and anxiety! We’ve seen some pretty miraculous results so far.
We’d love to hear from all of you anxious software engineers :)
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