Tag: Anxiety

  • Preplanning for Disappointment with Defensive Pessimism

    Preplanning for Disappointment with Defensive Pessimism

    I’ve become so accustomed to disappointment in my life that I’ve actually started pre-planning for disappointment. I’m assuming that almost everyone has disappointments, however I’m sure there are some people who experience more disappointments than others.  And I don’t believe that this is always due to the fact that some people have expectations that are unrealistic…

  • Anxious, Can’t Sleep

    Anxious, Can’t Sleep

    One of the fun things about my life, much like Back to the Future, are the paradoxes I encounter daily. These paradoxes typically involve my anxiety causing all my worst fears to come true.  That’s right, my own anxiety, that I adopted as a child, causes the EXACT things to happen that I want to…