Three Forms of Time Anxiety
For us to be able to manage the eerie feeling of never having enough time we must know the three different forms it can manifest as:
- Daily Time Anxiety: the feeling of never having enough time in your day.
- Future Time Anxiety: dwelling on the “what ifs?”
- Existential Time Anxiety: the sense that you only have a limited amount of time in your life, and that it’s slipping away.
All three forms are valid and we must learn to soothe our anxieties ourselves because it's not like someone will be able to soothe them for us all of the time.
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