So, like a month ago, I got myself a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy workbook for home, to help me fight my periodic anxiety from being shit on in various amounts from school, work, and family.
The other day when I felt so tired, then, I pulled it out on a Sunday evening to do a few exercises and maybe learn a few things to start my week out on the right foot.
After the intro chapter, I saw what seemed most applicable, and automatically flipped to the chapter on living with uncertainty.
Shockingly, when I parsed the dynamics in my life, I found out that not only were 85% of my worries (well-founded) fears rather than (ill-founded) anxieties, but also that a "reality check" of the past few years shows that it's relatively rational to expect worsening circumstances in the future (e.g. suppressed wages, more unstable jobs, higher expenses).
Sigh.
How disturbing.
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