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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

I forgor ๐Ÿ’€

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year 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 removedhtmares that I didn't graduate and still need to complete one course.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 removedhtmare isn't just me...

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I guess it would depend on frequency

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even more so

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

SSRIs help

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I lucked out and got it right the first time

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I feel this in my soul.