circusmaximus

Honestly I have been consumed by this kind of anxiety the last two years as a remote worker. Constant paranoia about what the team is doing and saying and what people are really motivated by.

The politics of my remote teams Have driven me to depression and constant fear.

What has genuinely helped me is to change my diet. I switched to a diet of nothing but meat and vegetables and began supplementing vitamin D.

I have noticed that my mood and emotional responses are significantly better when I fix my health. Like it or not, my crappy diet was causing me all kinds of problems and making my anxiety worse.

Another thing: I have a team member who literally sees everything positively. Whenever something happens, he automatically defaults to “this is a good thing because...” and tells a story to himself about why this is a positive thing.

I started trying to think that way.

When you have anxiety every miscommunication or misunderstanding gets rounded to a negative reaction. When your diet and health are bad, you have a much higher chance of being in an exhausted or poor mood and taking things the wrong way.

And yes - I understand some people suffer from more mental conditions. But even if you do have a mental condition of some sort, fixing your nutrition helps regardless.