Can’t settle

I can't stand waiting for anything. I always over prepare and end being early for everything. I dread afternoon appointments as I spend all day thinking about it.

I didn't expect so many people to be the same.

I am the same.

Same here although Mr C is worse than I am. I often tell him he reminds me of a little boy, shoes and coat are on a good twenty minutes before we need to leave. That’s unless he’s engrossed in a book when he’s deaf to all entreaties to hurry up. It all seems pretty usual.

GoldenAge

Surprised to see so many gransnetters fretting, worrying, becoming stressed or whatever word you use. This is pure anxiety and you need to get some talking therapy to try to understand what it is in your particular case that's causing it. Life promises to be not so great, and to become smaller as time goes on if general anxiety and social anxiety take root. As a psychotherapist I will hopefully persuade those of you who do feel this way that if this is an evolving characteristic it is very likely to be down to changing identities (no longer being a work colleague, a mother of young children, a manager of other people, etc.) and the growing belief that you are somehow now incapable. Please just talk these feelings through with a counsellor/psychotherapist - your GP should be able to direct you to six free sessions with a qualified person.

incapable ? good lord

the notion that any GP could or would direct a patient on request to six free sessions with a ‘qualified person’ is both misleading and fantastical

I'm like this too, cat on hot bricks describes the feeling well. Once I start moving / guest I'm expecting arrives, I'm fine.

Have always been like it, to an extent. Good to know I'm not alone.