Calendar anxiety

[ar_gemlad]

Does anyone else get calendar anxiety? It's a term I've coined to describe the anxiety I feel when I have more than x appointments/events coming up, where x is generally quite small. The events are mostly fun ones at the moment, yet I still have the anxiety

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[venta]

Do your x events have to be concentrated into a short period of time, or is it just any x events?

I tend to get a bit twitchy if I have many things scheduled close together, because I know I'm not going to get very much free time. Which can be kind of fun at the time, but it turns out sleep is quite important (and so, rather distressingly, is doing mundane life admin).

[ar_gemlad]

I generally get more anxious with events closer together, but they don't necessarily have to be!

Hmm, actually putting everything on my calendar would help with the anxiety. I should do that.

[venta]

I find it useful to mark all my upcoming events on my calendar (though mostly because I'm spectacularly disorganised otherwise), and also to mark in some evenings/weekends as "time which I consider to be booked up, but is actually me making sure that I have an evening to spend at home doing whatever". I put them on my calendar as NQNI, which is "nice quiet night in" :)

I dunno if that would make you less anxious, or count as more booked-up time to be anxious about!

[ar_gemlad]

I think that might work. Nebulous things tend to make me more anxious, so planning my time should work.

[badgersandjam]

I mostly get clock anxiety, and it's symptomatic of higher stress. FOr example, if I have to do something at 8PM, from noon I'll be thinking "but I only have 8 hours! That's not enough to do anything!" and then stress that I'm not doing anything.

How did the last session go?

[ar_gemlad]

Batshit crazy :) It was a lot of fun, although there was a lot of WTF is going on?! for both players and GMs. I believe there was only one PC death in session: Gareth's new character saving the ship from the Warden's men in suicidal fashion. We had more mass-loss from the ship in two hours than we have had the rest of the game put together...

[zandev]

Yeah, I get that too with too many events clustered.

[anotherusedpage]

I know this feeling. I also find it really hard to concentrate on things that are going to come after an event that's 'big' in my head, even if they are equally important. So, things I've put off until after x date can feel massively stressful because they could be important things I've not been concentrating on, even if they're not? Something like that.