Time anxiety

Have you ever gotten stressed about being late? What about being on the verge of crying and breaking down when you are late or so close to being late? Then you may have Time anxiety.

Monday morning, it's 8:30 and I'm about to take my 30 minute walk to college. It is raining. I ask my Mum if she can give me a lift but she is taking the kids to school so I decide to get the bus. It gets to 8:50 and the bus still hasn't come yet so I start walking. At this point I'm annoyed that I am going to be late but as the walk turns into a run, I become more and more upset about how I'll be late and how I will get in trouble and how if I am late I will miss content and fail my exams.

This would have been the first time I was late for anything in the last 4 years as I am nearly always early, I can't just be 'on time', I need to be early.

I wasn't late in the end. I was 30 seconds early and I had managed to do a 30 minute walk in 10. No one wants to be late but if I know it's getting close and I am miles away from my destination, I will be literally in floods of tears.