Bill Cahill/Getty Images
Summary.
Anxiety can cause you problems at work. Perhaps it leads you to misjudge what other people think of you, react defensively to feedback, focus on risks when facing new ideas or avoid certainI have an anxiety-prone brain. When presented with a new idea, my first instinct is usually to think of what could go wrong and the worst-case scenario. Whenever communication is ambiguous, the first conclusion I jump to is a negative one.