Often I end up closing the list and immediately turning to self-soothing. And because there’s no way to know in advance if a task on the list will give me anxiety, this often results in my list being not just unusable but unreadable, preventing me from doing or even remembering the non-anxiety tasks on the same list.
I agree. I literally just journaled 1000 words because of a very small issue I fixated on that a larger issue was hiding behind.
Took 15 min, but now i’m productive again.