What To Do When Everything Feels Urgent: Coping With Hurry Sickness

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As I was researching for this episode I discovered the phrase hurry sickness, which I honestly had never heard of before… but once I started reading about it, I knew it was all too familiar. Hurry sickness is “characterized by chronic rushing and anxiousness and an overwhelming, persistent sense of urgency — even when there’s no need to be moving so fast.” If you’re somebody who is high-achieving with a Type A personality, you might be able to relate to this. The problem with hurry sickness is that it can result in chronic stress, anxiety, irritability, and negative impacts on your work and relationships. In this episode, we’ll dive more into hurry sickness and how you can cope when everything feels urgent.

In this episode, you will learn:

- My personal experiences with hurry sickness
- 6 signs of hurry sickness along with 6 consequences that can result from it
- 6 tips to help you cope when everything feels urgent

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[CalmlyCoping]

Do you resonate with having hurry sickness? How does it show up for you?

[CodyHomes]

I put this on for my grandma while getting ready for church this morning.

[msbg]

I walk fast, move fast always in a hurry. People always tell me it's awkward. Especially partners. I have traced it back to a narcissistic mom who made meeting all her needs urgent for me while she met none of mine. 😢 starting to work on this at 39.. better late than never ❤

[lindabasinger]

I make mistakes rushing all the time. It's a nightmare. I need to learn to live in the moment

[lindabasinger]

I've been like that all my life and need help. I even hurried during vacation every second of every day. I'm 60 and finally realized I do that. It's hard to break. Thanks so much for these videos I can't afford therapy. I'm an ex Jehovah witness and they teach you are never good enough.

[MichaelDerousselle]

Yep. I have GAD and depression. I often feel that I am not moving fast enough. It is hard to get focused on one thing.

[ahmedvirus]

I was preparing my pitch a week ahead, and i was practising on it now. I found myself in such a hurry! I recorded myself, and i even found myself rushing when I'm saying every sentence as if someone was about to judge me or someone was waiting unpatiently till i finish!

I do thank you for making me aware as i was about to explode from the anxiety i was experiencing 🙃

[LisaPenny]

Very helpful. My mantra to date has been “I’m not rushin’, I’m American!” LOL. I am going to adopt your mantra.

[kasandragamboa]

when i met my husbend i noticed he had hurry sickness due to his job i was the patient one now after having kids i cant seem to relax i always want to get things done !

[SullivanMarketing]

Thank you so much I struggle with hurry sickness from running my own business I definitely have that over achiever personality, becoming aware and meditating daily and avoiding certain people places and activities helped me a lot and not over booking myself

[fujiokakujo]

I thought im the only one who have this. This is suck man, i always catch myself doing everything "fast" I've noticed this since im in 7th grade, i told my friend that when i draw i want to finish it as fast as i can, meanwhile she's doing it slowly and really careful with what she's doing. That is the first time I've noticed this. I tried to search on Google, but at that time there are still no information about this. Then in 2022 i searched again abt this, and found out it's called "hurry sickness" and i relate to all of the signs. I realized but i still do nothin about it. Now im planning to heal from this because i feel like this is getting out of control and i feel miserable. I keep typing as fast as i can, i can't even watch a youtube video without holding the urge to finish the video because "i need to watch other benefits videos"
Thank God i found this video, btw im typing this comment slowly this time, and i really take a time to type this. I hope i can heal

[kunalshirke]

This helped me a lot
Thank you for the help

[ThuroVision-tt]

Wow.. 2 minutes in and sounds like me 😮 glad I found this😅🙏🏼

[chaitralimule]

Thank you so much ma'am.
I am this type A personality and making things done. I will apply your mantra and get slow down.

[Akaawol]

I have more ADHD time blindness which causes me to be early to compensate for not being late. That does cause anxiety for me.

[Kajal...]

I'm literally fed up from this problem, though my age is only 20 years but this is causing a lot of stress.. sometimes i feel that I'm the only one suffering but thats not true...my parent's used to scold me everytime coz i changed this hurry sicknesse to stubborness ...hope all these mantra would help me..thanks for your support 🙏❤️

[gxvrgdn]

I feel rushed watching this video also lol =)))

[ryanjackson]

kinda hard when you see it from my end knowing I could be there I just get used by all yall genius on your end kinda crappy on my end jus saying