Blogging with anxiety; Posts Paranoïa

Good morning!

I’ve come to the realization that thoses little panics might more be related to having anxiety instead of the whole “being a blogger” experience. But I wanted to share my little stressing bits about my postings overall and see if it’s more common that I might think!

Disclaimer; i’m not only using “Paranoïa” here simply because it fits and sounds good – i’m using this word because once i’m in that state, I need to check my blog over and over and over and over again until I need to pull myself out and force myself to do something else to let my mind drift off it and let go.

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We can technically devide this with before, during and after – as it’s not one thing specifically that rise a little anxiety, but a multitude of different things.. and of course, it’s not *always* the case everyday; as who would wanna keep blogging if it was only stressing yourself, right?

 

The « Before writting »

✦ This is the “getting ideas for posts” part.. Sometimes i’m having many written downs, most times I don’t.

✦ I like to think on my ideas and see if I somewhat know what I wanna say about it, sometimes I write a chunck of it in my head first. Then I wonder if I have enough to say, if it would be interesting for people to read and of course I need to double check onto my blog’s categories to see if I had written a post aout said idea before, because I don’t wanna look like i’m repeating myself, and can’t tell if that’s brand new idea or not xd

 

The « During writting »

✦ Again, the existential question as i’m writting as if I have enough to say and if people would find it interesting. Depending on the wordcounts, might stress about it being too short — as i’m mostly good to do longer ones.

✦ Reread the posts a few time make sure I didn’t missed anything, and if what i’m trying to say is going through and make sense; aswell as double-check the post’s settings atleast twice; specially to make sure it’s going live on the correct day.

 

The « After writting »

✦ This is the major one i’m having trouble with – because the last two is mainly around the time you are writting posts, which is only 3x a week for me. (and honestly, now that I wrote it, the before and during feel a bit normal/less bad — but idk what’s anxiety-based and what’s normal anymore 🙈)

✦ If I have scheduled posts already, and specially the day before it goes live, I need to double-check my “Scheduled posts” tab to make sure they are indeed there, and that they’re gonna post on the correct day. Usually I need to make sure more than once.

✦ At the end of the month is where the paranoïa stands. I go through my “Blog’s Planning” Bujo page, and I look at what’s published to make sure all was posted and I didn’t missed any, checking the scheduled tab once again if there’s still some on standby — and obsessively look at it over and over like 3 to 5 times, until I make myself snap and stop doing it.

 

I feel like there’s might be more.. but I can’t think of anything else currently, and let it be said, most of the times it does involves double-triple checking everything to be extra sure all is fine.

Do you relate to this post- are you stressing about thoses too?
Is there anything else that I didn’t mention that you find particularly stressful?