Does anyone else get anxiety or want to SCREAM or bash their computer’s brains out when a new email or ping comes through? How do I get over this anxiousness and anger?

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I just turn off the noise. I had a boss who used to text me at all hours and the default iphone noise gave me sky high anxiety. If I need to hear the ping, I'll change the noise to something I'm not used to

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Everyday. For me it’s not just a matter of PTO. It’s feeling never in control of professional life. The upside of WFH is that I can actually scream which helps

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Take some PTO. Seriously, being stressed out all the time isn’t worth it. Take a step back and come back after you unwind

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I definitely agree and have done this, but I find it to be a temporary bandaid because the feeling returns a week later. I also experience guilt by taking too much PTO (even though it’s not much at all).

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Put yourself on DND so you don’t get any notifications nor pings and only check your emails at set time intervals - once you think about the average waiting time you sit through for people to respond to your own emails, you realise there is no rush to respond. Also, if a matter of life or death, they’ll ring your mobile: till that happens, it’s all cool

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What helped me a bit was to turn off all notifications and to batch emails. I always tell my colleagues I do so and have fixed times for mails in the morning, after lunch and in the evening. Out of this scheduled mail times I don’t check my inbox.

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I’ll be in the other room resting and hear the outlook new mail notification and end up dropping what I’m doing to see if it’s something urgent. Not a great idea

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Exactly! Totally relatable.

I dont have an answer but same boat. This is staring to haunt me.

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