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Organisation Introduction

 

 

Are you an organised person?

Are you an organised person?  Anxiety sometimes manifests itself in issues surrounding organisation.  Some people are driven to be highly organised and vigilant in terms of making sure they are always on time and meeting social protocol.  This hyper-vigilance can in itself stimulate anxiety.  At the other extreme, severely depressed individuals typically reach such a place of dysfunction that organisation and ability to do basic chores and tasks becomes tantamount to impossible.  Every chore seems like an ‘overwhelming task’.  Even simple jobs such as paying a bill or tidying one’s room induce feelings of fatigue.  

 

 

 

 

Contents

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  1. Organisation Questionnaire: Core traits.
  2. Trait 1: Disorganisation: Low Scores
  3. Trait 1: Disorganisation: High Scores
  4. Trait 2: Goal-Focused
  5. Trait 3: Binning Tendency
  6. Trait 4: Leisure Tendency

How does personal organisation relate to anxiety?

In essence, I do not believe that addressing issues pertaining to organisation and anxiety surrounding organisation is likely to alleviate the core of anxiety.  However, I believe that if anxiety has manifested itself in issues surrounding organisation, then addressing some of these issues may help alleviate anxiety to some extent.  This is of two-fold importance. 

  1. Firstly, any alleviation of anxiety frees up mental energy.  If we are less anxious, we probably sleep better and feel more relaxed.  If all our mental resources are depleted due to anxiety, it becomes very difficult to make further important life changes.  Alleviation of some anxiety, therefore, strengthens us emotionally and this in turn gives us new strength to begin to face more ‘core’ anxiety related issues. 
  2. Secondly, manipulating our behaviours and thought patterns in issues relating to organisation, in order to bring about reduction in anxiety, helps us to begin to learn how making difficult cognitive and behavioural changes can increase our life satisfaction.  I believe that behavioural change is extremely difficult; it is extremely difficult to make behaviour (even character) changes after we have followed certain behaviour patterns for 20 or more years of our lives.  But making changes and seeing the benefits of these changes in one area of our lives, begins to teach us the essential skill of enduring the trauma of making changes in order to reap the ultimate benefit of increased life satisfaction and reduction of anxiety.  This recognition and experience is essential, since, it is this core recognition and experience that will give us strength to make far more difficult and important changes as we begin to attempt to tackle issues with far further reaching underlying significance.