Living with anxiety in a professional setting

Hello everyone !

It has been a while since we had a chat on mental health, but more specifically on anxiety! As you might know, i’ve been medicated for a decade now, unfortunately it still manages to show it’s face once in a while,, 🤭

Ofcourse I have many posts on the subject, so feel free to browse the topic or my mental health category as a whole.

You see, i’ve been working retail/coffee shop job for a good 8yrs.. and while customers can induce their own set of anxieties, you will agree with me that it’s not stressful in itself. Not counting the rushes; where i’d get overwhelm as it’s the customers that i’m stressing about and not the coffee orders per say. (As they’d get annoyed or angry for the wait time, and hey I have two pairs of hands for the dozen of you yknow 🫣)

It’s a good chunck of time spend working on my feet, with my body, where the off time I get to log off and clean, do my closing tasks quickly with a few customers in-between; by then it was mainly automatism where I wouldn’t think much about it.

With my new job working at an office- oh is it different! Again, added stressor being that i’m a newbie with a new system (I worked a decade ago but a lot have digitalised).. the main thing is my brain being more involved. While some tasks stay routinely the same, alot of them have curve balls and their own unique stories, so much more things for my brain to be anxious about! 😅

It’s quite impossible for me to turn it off, as I could with routinely active body work, I need to be constantly thinking on what i’m doing- as per dealing with money (but the customers and ours, so you don’t wanna make mistakes!). I’m hoping some of the small bits like: forgotten to attach something to that email, fudge sent it to the wrong email (guy has two- for same company) etc. will ease as I progress and be more at ease.

Moral of the story, it’s all fun and games until you change something from your life and anxiety comes along 😅 Said anxiety that you thought had dissapeared, but was just on sleep mode.

How is your experience with this?