Anxiety Archives - A blog about life on the spectrum https://kaiskjold.com/tag/anxiety/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:08:58 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 152266933 What About Regrets? https://kaiskjold.com/2026/04/02/what-about-regrets/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:44:06 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=2099 I have always been trying to live my life in such a way that I would not have regrets. My choices has shaped the person I have become and I stubbornly assumed most of my life that this attitude has prevented me from suffering much from regrets in my life. Unexpectedly, these last few years, I have been struggling more …

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]]> 2099 12 Books, 12 Months – Part 4 https://kaiskjold.com/2025/08/31/12-books-12-months-part-4/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 09:11:00 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=2082 12 books, book 10 to 12 The end is here! Well, I have to admit I read all these books quite a while ago and didn’t have time to write the post about it all this time. Luckily, I wrote notes occasionally while I was reading. I tend to write snippets and notes on anything from scraps of paper, notebooks …

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]]> 2082 Making Choices That Feel Right https://kaiskjold.com/2025/03/29/making-choices-that-feel-right/ Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:47:52 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=2076 I struggled with making choices most of my life. Maybe I didn’t when I was a child, but as I grew up and realised I wasn’t like everyone else, I started struggling more and more. It’s not like I never wanted to make choices that made me happy, of course I did, but it wasn’t a simply binary problem. It …

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]]> 2076 Can We Say “I Am Sorry” Too Often https://kaiskjold.com/2025/02/16/can-we-say-i-am-sorry-too-often/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:32:33 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=2064 When I was younger, I would apologize all the time. It was a reflex, not because I felt I had done something wrong. It was more, I was sure someone would feel I had done something wrong and therefore I apologised because I didn’t want to offend or hurt anyone. It became a reflex or maybe a bad habit. Of …

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]]> 2064 Creativity and Pain https://kaiskjold.com/2025/01/17/creativity-and-pain-2/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 09:37:16 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=2060 How some artists are able to sink deep into depression and be more creative than ever before I will never be able to understand. I am the absolute opposite. If I am sad, depressed or struggling I feel completely disconnected from all sense of creativity and I am barely able to produce the bare minimum of content. I am basically …

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]]> 2060 What Comes After Stress? https://kaiskjold.com/2025/01/11/what-comes-after-stress/ Sat, 11 Jan 2025 08:29:17 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=2054 Sometimes I wonder if there will ever be a time where I won’t be stressed. It feels like it has become a natural state of being and that my body doesn’t even remember what life could be without it. I am tired, though, so very tired. I don’t think anyone can live a life like this for very long. I …

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]]> 2054 12 Books, 12 Months – Part 3 https://kaiskjold.com/2024/09/22/12-books-book-7-to-9/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:15:26 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=2034 Almost at the end now. I have to say, I didn’t think this would really make a big difference after the first couple of books, but now I am starting to feel like maybe it might. It’s snowballing. It’s like the more I actively think about what can make me a better person, the more I also try to do …

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