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Entries relating to anxiety.
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The mortifying realisation that a private disagreement has just been broadcast in full to an entirely unrelated household.
Read full entry →An intense, disproportionate spiral of anxiety triggered entirely by a short, deliberately vague message.
Read full entry →Recognising, mid-laugh, that a story or joke has already been told once and you're now hearing it for the second time.
Read full entry →An overwhelming, vaguely worded conversational opener that leaves the other person scrambling to summarise an entire life.
Read full entry →A considerate, unprompted heads-up sent ahead of an unavoidable delay, sparing the other person any needless anxiety.
Read full entry →Having spent an unreasonable amount of time drafting a single text, only to send a version you're still not happy with.
Read full entry →The last-minute, exam-style revision of a date's dating profile to avoid asking a question they've already answered.
Read full entry →A rare, appreciated instance where a promised financial reward from an employer arrives exactly when expected.
Read full entry →Excessively committed to prolonged, unnecessary pyrotechnic celebration well beyond the appropriate occasion window.
Read full entry →Caught in an unavoidable social scheduling conflict during the busiest weeks of the festive calendar.
Read full entry →An unwelcome scheduling collision between a work-mandated bonding activity and genuinely anticipated social plans.
Read full entry →Claiming a false resilience to deadlines that collapses entirely the instant a real deadline actually arrives.
Read full entry →A minor but real workplace embarrassment caused by forgetting an entirely optional, low-stakes dress code day.
Read full entry →A deceptively casual verbal preamble that precedes news of significantly more weight than the phrase suggests.
Read full entry →A sudden, total memory failure regarding a Secret Santa gift recipient, occurring exclusively the night before the deadline.
Read full entry →A minor but real December crisis caused by an unreliable memory for who's already received a festive greeting.
Read full entry →A jarring, unexpectedly loud explosion that makes every dog on the street bark simultaneously and shakes the windows.
Read full entry →Blindsided by an unintended text substitution that slipped past a hurried proofread and into a sent professional message.
Read full entry →A perfectly, cruelly timed piece of software maintenance that guarantees maximum disruption at the worst possible moment.
Read full entry →Engaged in a frantic, high-stress dash through crowded shops purely because of prolonged, deliberate procrastination.
Read full entry →A small but real disappointment triggered by a work notification arriving well outside any reasonable hours.
Read full entry →Caught completely off guard by a scheduling error that only becomes apparent once you're already late.
Read full entry →Haunted by an automated email response from a previous holiday that never got switched off, quietly confusing everyone since.
Read full entry →A peaceful, deeply British sense of coziness derived entirely from being warm and dry while the weather outside is dreadful.
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