Increased Anxiety at Work and in Life: How to Stop Living in a State of Constant Threat You wake up tired. Even before you open your eyes, your heart starts to beat faster. In your head, a list of tasks that haven't been done goes through. You check your phone, even though no one has written. You respond to messages, even if you can wait. You plan, double-check, worry, anticipate, insure. This is not just "perfectionism" and not just "responsibility". This is anxiety. It seeps into everyday life, becomes a familiar background, to which we no longer react. But this background is not normal. It's a signal. And if you recognize yourself, our article is for you. Anxiety as a Companion of the Modern Man: Why We Live Like This We live in a world that itself provokes anxiety. Information noise, constant availability, deadlines, uncertainty, the requirement to be "productive" 24/7. Our brain perceives this as a constant threat. And it responds in the only available way: it turns on the survival system. Adrenaline, cortisol, muscle tension, rapid heartbeat — all of this works like clockwork. But these are broken clocks, because the threat does not disappear. It moves from one message to another, from one letter to the next, from one task to an endless list. This is especially pronounced at work. We fear not to be on time, to make a mistake, to be undervalued, to lose our job, to be replaced. Anxiety becomes the fuel on which we move, but this fuel poisons us. We confuse anxiety with energy. We confuse fear with responsibility. We confuse control with care. And in this delusion, we live for years. How Anxiety Manifests in the Body and in Life Anxiety is not just "thoughts". It's a state of the whole body. We don't notice how constantly tense our shoulders are, how our jaw is clenched, how shallow and frequent we breathe. We don't notice how our sleep has become anxious, how we wake up at night with thoughts about work, how our weekends turn into preparation for the nex ... Read more