Whatever you do, you first picture the ways it could go wrong, and you prepare for each one you picture.
So on a trip, everything anyone needs comes out of your bag, and if the schedule falls apart, you already have a second plan.
People call you thorough. But really, preparing is the only way you know to calm the worry, 'What if it goes wrong?', so you can't stop preparing.
What you're good at
You stop problems before they happen. You cover cases others haven't even thought of, so the things you're in charge of almost never go wrong.
What you often hear
- “You don't have to worry that much.”
- “What would we have done without you?”
What wears you out
The hardest thing for you is something you can't prepare for. When there's nothing you can do, like waiting for a result or leaving something in someone else's hands, the thought 'There's nothing I can do' only makes the worry grow.
For the people around you
You keep track of the other person's schedule and even how they're feeling, so you're reassuring to have around. But when they're relaxed about things, you think, 'Why are they being so careless?', and the nagging comes out along with the care.
Worth trying
Practice stopping your preparation at about 80%. Only after seeing a few times that the last 20% mostly never happens, and that dealing with it then would have been fine, will you feel at ease.