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Hey, friend. I want to give you some real-word advice, from someone likely much older than you.

If this is a common thing for you, I would highly suggest reading a book called How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. Its $2 on Kindle. It gives some really practical advice for handling anxiety, which is something that plagues us all.

One of the techniques it mentions is keeping busy. Keep your mind, and your body, occupied. Do not give yourself time to ruminate on things. Ruminating is never productive. Ever. This is not the same as ignoring. Don't confuse the two. Ignoring a problem is bad. But ruminating on it is not the same as addressing it, and it is not helpful.

So clean that room. Just do it. You will feel inexplicably better than you think you have any right to for doing such a simple thing. And you will marvel at what in the world prevented you from doing it before, having been such a simple task.

Which brings me to another point, but I will make it my last here. More is in the book I suggested. Everyone has a todo list in their head. The size of that list is what matters anxiety-wise. Not the difficulty or length of the tasks. This is counter-intuitive.

You would think the more work you have to do, and are not doing, the more it should weigh on your mind. But that is not the case. It is the number of tasks, large or small, that weighs most heavily on your mind.

And most people have a million very small things on their mental todo list.

So clear it out. Just do them. Get them out of your mental space. They will take a shockingly short amount of time and bring you such a disproportionate amount of comfort, you will marvel at why you didn't do them sooner.

Then you can get back to splatting squids and losing every. single. game.

And that's the good type of problem to have.

I think I've seen this movie before.