50 Things I Came Up with in less than six minutes that You Should Be Scared About and Not One Reason Not to Be

John Halstead
6 min readMar 21, 2022

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When it comes to worry, I have more than a few ways to help you stop. Let me begin by reassuring you that I can out worry the best of them. Being secure and having enough money has always been a source of worry for me. I have attacked the problem from different angles. Here are some ideas that might teach you something about worrying.

First of all, there was always the continual worry that I will lose my job. Being responsible, I made sure to give my worries their full due diligence. Here is the short list of what happened to a friend of mine. What is still happening and why you should be on the alert all the time. After all, it could happen to you too.

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Now if I were to lose my job.

That would mean I would be out of money. Since you need money to be secure, you must keep your job.

Therefore, you should be suspicious of everyone at work, so that they don’t stab you in the back.

Furthermore, pay attention to the financial situation at work all the time, because you never know when they’ll be layoffs.

Low and behold, I was right. I got laid off.

The good news is that I’ve been so worried about this that I’ve actually saved a little bit of line and get by for a short time.

I could however have saved a lot more money if I had gotten to the doctor sooner.

You see, what I found is that I use anti-anxiety medicine that helps my worry, and you can only get that from the doctor.

The doctors are valuable for more things than that.

For example, not long after I developed panic attacks

The problem is I didn’t know what a panic attack was, so I thought I was having a heart attack, so I went to the emergency room dozens of times.

You might know that the cost of healthcare is rising, but wait till you get the bill for multiple trips to the E.R.

So with that, the panic continued, and then I started to get a sharp pain in my right upper stomach, which required several expensive imaging tests to rule out potential problems.

Nothing was found that would cause the pain.

So now I have to worry about finding a job while living in chronic pain.

Since I have no cause for the pain, I do not know if this is permanent.

Recently, I saw a show about how people that have anxiety and panic attacks often grind their teeth. I think my teeth are worn down to the nerve. It seems like every time I bite down on something, it shoots right through to the root.

My wife says to go to the dentist, but the problem is she’s failing to realize is that we do not have enough money

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In the meantime, I’ve been so busy dealing with all these problems I haven’t really made a good effort to find a job.

Now I feel angry at myself for this, and regret I forget how difficult it was when I started to worry.

What this seems to have taught me is that no matter how much you plan or how responsible you are with your money, it seems like when things go wrong, it will never be enough. Now I figure I’ll never retire and at my age I have my health to worry about.

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I recently read that people with mental health problems die much younger and have less quality of life.

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My teeth have to be looked at, and I can’t afford it.

Now I would have had the house up to speed, but with all my problems that needed my immediate attention, I mean there’s always something.

So all the things that I love to do in life, I love to spend time outside, to spend time in the outdoors.

But now I don’t even have the will to spend the money for a fishing license.

It is like being in jail.

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That’s why I sit at home and try to come up with a solution.

Recently, I saw a show about how people that have anxiety and panic attacks often grind their teeth. I started to notice that I did it a lot when I was driving. Now my teeth are worn down and every time that I bite down on something it shoots right through to the root.

In the meantime I’ve been so busy dealing with all these problems and all of this suffering and I haven’t made a good effort at looking for a job.

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Now I feel angry at myself for this and regret that I did not focus more on finding work, but then I forget how difficult it was when I started to worry.

What this seems to have taught me is that no matter how much you plan and how responsible you are with your money, it seems like when things go wrong, it will never be enough. Now I figure I’ll never retire.

I recently read, that people with mental health problems, die much younger and have less quality of life.

My teeth have to be looked at now.

I can’t afford that either, and I don’t want to borrow the money.

I don’t know what I’m going to do, because my house has a bunch of repairs it needs, so again, you can see the problem.

Now I would have had the house up to speed, but I had all these problems that needed my immediate attention. I mean, there’s always something, but you need to be dealing with in this world today.

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So of all the things that I love to do in life, I like to spend time in the outdoors. But now I don’t even have the will to spend the money for a fishing license, so I sit at home and I try to come up with some kind of solution.

I wish this money problem would go away.

I spend all my time trying to think of a solution.

The news says there is a a new covid variant.

My health is not good. This is bad.

Do you know what really worries me though? It is all these people running around like they domnot a care in the world. Can you imagine all the worries they do not even know they should be having.

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John Halstead

I grew up in New York, lived in Vermont for a decade, and then moved to Texas for twenty years. I am currently a school teacher a blogger and a podcaster.