and maybe even more importantly how did you fix it?
Mine. I forget everything. Literally tell me something, remind me to do a task, and within seconds I forget about it. It sucks too because it leads me to making the same mistakes over and over again.
I’m thinking about carrying a notebook around and treating life like a class where I take notes all day. Just sick of being an idiot. :smack:
I have a terrible memory too, and this is essentially what I have done. During the times in my life when I’ve really committed to it, it has helped immensely.
My other “personal problems” all have been solved either with good communication, prescription drugs, or vanilla cake frosting. Or a combination thereof.
I get way too overworked about random things. Most of the time I’m super laid-back but little things at the wrong time can push me over the edge. I remember reading in one of the Anne of Green Gable books about some woman who’d get so angry she’d bite pieces out of her furniture to keep her temper in check. That’s me. (I bite my pillow though, not my furniture.)
I think it helps that usually I know that I’m getting worked up over something ridiculous. I usually just isolate myself until I’ve calmed down and then it’s fine.
Yeah, I have this problem as well. I worry and worry about stupid things that are really no big deal. Lately, I’ve just tried not caring. May not be the best idea but at least it helps a little.
Procrastination.
Anxiety. Complete, debilitating, “life shuts down” anxiety.
Fortunately, mine is situational, not general.
I deal with it through relaxation and meditation and, once in a while, therapy.
Chalk another one up for forgetfulness! Birthdays, anniversaries, and deadlines all fly by without me noticing, which makes for some fun times in the aftermath.
I find using mnemonics (or just finding a pattern) helps for birthdays. For example, June 12th, is 6-12, which is 6 multiplied by two.
So, if I associate that pattern with a name, I can recall their birthday with minimal difficulty.
However, it definitely doesn’t help me when June 12th actually comes and goes. Whoosh.
I used to be passive-aggressive as all hell. Now, I just say “No” to their face. Life is much better.
Fear and procrastination. I think that I’m not smart enough or able enough, so I don’t bother to try. For example, I really should be looking for a better paying job, but let my fear of the unknown give me an excuse not to try at all.
I do really like where I am now, but it doesn’t pay very well.
There’s a joke in here, somewhere.
My biggest problem? Lack of confidence with respect to women and dating.
I’ve worked on everything else, from the debilitating fear I once had, to learning how to be social, and now my major problems are relatively minor physical things, and I’m even working on those. I’ve gotten over my fear of making mistakes in public when learning languages. I’m starting a business. I’m in better physical shape than I’ve been in years. I’ve broken through all sorts of barriers in my life.
And yet… because of my history and all, I’ve had only one brief girlfriend-type relationship in my life, and that was long before I learned what it was like to have a relationship of emotional equals. Well, learning how to connect with people, how to dance the dance of sociality… that is my next schooling.
I have the same problem. My memory is getting really bad and I’m not even that old. However, mine isn’t literal, I’d consider mine more… actual. 
I can’t pick between irritable and self-sabotaging.
I haven’t fixed either one completely, but with the self-sabotaging thing, I just make myself do something–ANYTHING–productive. I tend to look too many steps ahead and get overwhelmed and anxious and just want to retreat! But I’ve had some success with making myself just pick a thing and do it, no matter how small it is. I mean it can truly be as simple as open the text book to the correct page and put it next to me and open a Word document and write the heading for the paper, if I’m feeling overwhelmed with how much schoolwork I have to do.
Hairy legs. (I’m female.) I dunno what to do. I’ve tried a variety of razors, and Nair; not gone for the waxing thing yet though.
Oh! You should try an epilator. They hurt kind of bad the first few times but it gets much easier after that.
Can you be a little more specific? Is shaving not getting all the hair off?
I’m not sure what your complaint is but I like Sally Hansen’s “Spray on- Shower off”. Leave it on for three minutes and then get in the shower and spray it off. Good stuff.
I don’t handle stress well. I’m trying to learn, but right now the best thing to do is to ask the people I care about to please stay away when I’m at my worst.
I’m also learning to avoid what we Catholic school veterans might call the near occasions of stress. In other words, try to plan ahead to reduce the chance that sudden, intense stress will occur - so, for instance, I have a trip coming up, and I’m working on a list of what I need to pack and cleared a block of time when I have nothing to do but pack. It helps, but life is not sufficiently predictable for that to be the whole solution.
My extreme good looks and modest demeanor…
I’m extremely analytically minded. It can get me out of a situation faster than normal, but it can also get me rattled and prolong it.
Procrastination. Or maybe second-guessing myself all the time. Really, I’ll think about it later. Or maybe I won’t.
Debilitating anxiety (generalized so I never know when I’ll have an episode) and phobias.
I spend a lot of time in the land of denial too.