I don't know why I do this to myself. (sigh)
For reasons that would take a long time to explain, and not even adequately, I have issues with my phone. Serious issues.
Whenever I'm feeling the least bit stressed and am unable to juggle all the things that need to be juggled and have to drop something, the thing that gets dropped is the phone.
No, not literally.
But I stop answering the phone and, worse, I stop listening to my voicemails. It's bad enough when I do this with my personal phone, but when it's my work phone... man, that's bad.
Because the phone keeps ringing. And people keep leaving messages. And I keep ignoring them. And the sense of anxiety gets worse and worse every time the phone rings, because who is it? Is it important? How many times have you already called? Are you mad now? Am I gonna get yelled at? Are you the chair of that committee who wants to talk to me before I present a report about the committee to that other committee?
The more the phone rings, the more anxious I get and the longer it takes me get over my issues and just deal with the stinking phone.
Are there things you ignore when you are stressed?
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