Planning trip to Scotland – suggestions for an anxious single dad with an autistic daughter? My son and I took a father son trip after he graduated and I wanted to do the same for my younger daughter. Her mom and I are divorced, and my daughter’s going to move far away with her after school. So, I gave her choice of location and she wants to go to Scotland. Glasgow and Loch Ness for sure. I think the highlands and or some castles would …

Senior in College with 75k job lined up after graduation. Anxious for what comes next. Hello everyone! I am 21 years old, and about to graduate college this may. I have a job lined up for 75k a year with benefits after I get my degree. I currently don’t have any bills to pay: no student loans from scholarships, car is paid off, parents are covering my insurance costs until I can work full time. I will have to find an apartment as …

LPT request, when I’m grocery shopping I get anxious when it comes to checking out I genuinely don’t know how to load the groceries when I’m checking out. I don’t know if i go first or my cart and I feel like I’m going to slow while taking everything out of the cart idk, any tips or does everyone feel like this? submitted by /u/sunnysunssun

LPT Request: How do I stop feeling extremely anxious right after waking up? Whenever I wake up from naps or sleep in general, I am bombarded constantly by negative thoughts and general anxiety about myself and my future. It doesn’t help that I am in kind of a rough phase in my life currently, and am also going through a breakup, but this has been happening from before the breakup as well. I cannot get these thoughts out…

Dad passed recently. Mom is extremely risk-averse & anxious about money. Sitting on a lot of equity. Disclaimer: I know that my parents are the lucky boomers that everyone hates. They bought a vacation property 40 years ago & retired to it. It’s now worth around $1.5m. I also realize that even though I am set to inherit all this (only child), it’s my mom’s money to do what she pleases with. I just don’t want her to needlessly throw away money b…

LPT Request – How can I stop anxious thoughts and go to sleep quickly each night? Last night I went to sleep at around 00:30am and couldn’t sleep until 4:30am mainly due to my thoughts keeping me up, what can I do to stop this? it’s so fucking annoying man. submitted by /u/benp242

Extremely anxious about my (33) finances I have been working in one country in Europe (not in EU) for the past 3 years, and prior to that in an EU country on limited contracts for 4 years. I currently have: 17k EUR in emergency funds (will invest more of this soon) 28k EUR invested in VT Pension fund from the country I’m currently in, probably won’t get anything from the previous cou…

We need some advice. We were so anxious for a vacation to be planned that we appear to have made a choice that isn’t going to be a nice vacation We’re 53, and have a 17 year old daughter, coming from the Vancouver area. We haven’t had a real vacation in 12 years. We’ve been talking about retirement in Latin America for a while, hopefully happening at age 60. Because we were stuck in decision paralysis about a Mexico vacation, we went to a travel agent in the mall. The agent was very pati…

LPT request: how to stop feeling anxious when talking to boss My boss is absolutely wonderful. She has never been anything but kind, gracious, warm, and generous with her time. But every time I have to initiate a conversation with her (or to a lesser extent, when she initiates), I am so overcome with social anxiety that it’s hard to string together a coherent thought. I’m terrified. Shaking, sweating, stut…

Louis Theroux: Anxious TV bosses should stop playing it safe submitted by /u/Kagedeah

LPT Usually I’d get very anxious about exams and finals, but this time something is different Usually I get very anxious about exams, but this time something is different For years now, I would be getting very anxious about exams, because I feel like I have no other option but to pass. This time it is different, it is hopefully my very last final and I hope I pass it. But I don’t feel any anxiety this time, I have been studying for quite…

LPT Request: how to stop feeling anxious all the time Hey everyone, 22M here. I feel like I am always anxious even for the smallest of things. This usually happens when I am unable to give time to gym. I would love to hear folks experiences/advice on how to overcome this. Thank you! submitted by /u/the21yearold

Nobuo Uematsu – Anxious Heart (The Surgery Version) Nobuo Uematsu – Anxious Heart (The Surgery Version) submitted by /u/anagenema

LPT: How to stop having a resting anxious face I frown a lot and didn’t realize until others would say “what are you thinking about..” Etc Or I’ll feel my face isn’t relaxed even when nothing is bothering me. Also if I’m concentrating on something or just scrolling online I’ll flip my phone camera on my face to catch myself and not to my surprise my furrowed brows are there to greet me. Yes …

LPT Request: What are non-substance ways to feel relief/unwind that helps, especially for an anxious person? I take hours upon hours to unwind. I eat right, exercise at lunch and after work, which helps. I’m just looking for really great strategies to get in a great mind space and feel physically relaxed. I’m naturally an incredibly anxious person always feeling like every day is doom day and it is draining. I’ve tried meditation, mindfulness (which I …

Anxious about airline delays + missing connecting flights. Any advice for a newbie world traveller? Am I overthinking/over-worrying? I apologize if this is a stupid post. My wife and I are not experienced in international travel. We have a tour booked with a Central Asian tour operator (Advantour) to visit Central Asia this September. We have a morning flight from Winnipeg, Canada, to Toronto, Canada, on WestJet and an 11-hour layover in Toronto, then an overnight flight fro…

LPT: Your interviewer is just as anxious as you are As part of my job, I have interviewed what feels like hundreds of people, and what I realised is that many candidates don’t think about how the interviewer feels. Interviewing can be a huge pain in the ass. You can’t cut it too short without seeming rude, and that makes you sit through 30 painful minutes of talking to someone who’s making it sup…