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>Feel like I should be doing something
>Don't know what
>Vague sense of uneasiness that I'm not doing it

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Small business owner here, the existential dread is real. Usually because it's true, and I won't realize what I forgot to do until I go to bed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's like my boss, every time I walk past him I have to go "remember to send that package". Get to the end of the day "hey boss did you send that package?" ... ... ... ...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why do you need to manage your boss?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Because I'm the one that answers the phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Being a calendar notification != Managing your boss

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

I forgor 💀

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I graduated 20 years ago and I still startle sometimes and panic that I’m forgetting to study for an exam.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

My wife is back in evening school to get het bachelors degree. Seeing her stressed and studying has triggered this a lit for me. Sometimes I even have nightmares that I didn't graduate and still need to complete one course.

[–] UnRelatedBurner 10 points 9 months ago

PTSD just got added to reasons as to why school is bad. Looking forward for another day even more.

context: I'm on my bus to school and I despise school.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Haha, me too! The other day I woke up, panicked that I had forgotten to sit an exam, and that the degree that I've been telling multiple employers for 15 years that I had was a lie. I'm glad that this recurring nightmare isn't just me...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

This was what i felt after I graduated from college. I was already working full time, so any amount of free time felt weired.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Or possibly ADHD, in which case the feeling is because there probably IS something you forgot to do

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't listen to him, OP. You should be out there multiplying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

not even following PEMDAS and doing stuff within parentheses or with exponents before multiplying

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Uhh, this doesn't apply if I'm just forgetful and there most certainly is something I'm supposed to be doing is there?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I guess it would depend on frequency

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Even more so

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Oh I know what it is and I'm trying to not remember on purpose please don't remind me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh hey it's the first 30 years of my life.

SSRIs help

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I tried SSRI and they gave me anxiety more intense than the worst I've felt. I'm the "lucky" ~15% of people who respond to them that way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I lucked out and got it right the first time

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

don't worry you will remember it some time after it's too late to do

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I feel this in my soul.