Freelancing with Anxiety: Here’s How to Manage Your Money
Dealing with an income that’s constantly in a state of flux is stressful. Doing it when you have anxiety and/or depression can be even worse. Here’s how to deal.
Money is hard.
Freelancing with anxiety and/or depression — that’s in a league of its own.
When I first started freelancing, after having worked as a financial journalist for about two years, it was overwhelming. My paychecks were scarce and somewhat unpredictable, and despite my experience in the financial world, I still felt like I had no idea how to handle everything without the security of a full-time job with benefits.
Every time I thought about money, there was this intense desire to shut it out of my mind and do something, anything, else.
But my anxiety wouldn’t let me let it go.
Instead, it hung out in the back of my brain, draining my energy and making me feel like a failure.
I’m not 100% sure how, but I pushed through it.
And in the past year, I’ve figured out a way of dealing with my money that works for me. So if…
