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Ask HN: How to stop worrying and start enjoying?

Hi HN,

I am a worrier. I worry about things that I should worry about, but I also worry deeply about hypothetical situations that will probably never happen. These can be to do with work, money, personal, life, you name it. You could even call it paranoia.

I am capable of idenfting the real threats from the fake ones, the ones that are extreme worst case scenarios - but I'm very bad at controlling them and letting go of them. Sometimes they can haunt me for weeks at a time.

This is of course deeply unpleasant and massively instrusive to the extent where I don't really enjoy daily life anymore.

I was wondering if anyone here has experienced these challenges and how they worked to overcome them.

All the best

82 points anxiouspete 8 years ago 55 comments

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