Obsessively worrying and focusing on things
Dear Community,
My post will be long and maybe overly detailed. It will also not strictly be looking for advice as parts of the topic could fall into multiple categories like meditation, venting, etc.
About me: 36 male, married, loving my wife a lot, childless as of now but this based on our plans should change next year, living in Hungary (not in favor of current government), working in management in IT sector at a multinational company.
From here I try to steer the topic in a logical flowing path, but it might not work out:
We moved to our current home in March, the house is great, our neighbors are great, the street where we live is not that great (I know I should have checked better before buying, but that's water under the bridge now, and that time, based on available information we made the best choice, also really wanted to move out from the rented flat).
So the street is long and straight and people love to speed up way over the legally allowed limit which is 50km/h (~30mp/h). Many-many go around 60-70-80km/h or more (so up to 50mp/h or more).
This is of course noisy, cutting the overall silence in pieces. Which compared to the constant hum where we lived before in the city, besides a train station and a 4 lane road with heavy but slower traffic is mind wrenching for me on many occasions.
This is one thing I would love to hear advice, consolation, whatever (moving is not an option).
We would have a fence build from concrete blocks to block out some noise, and I hope it'll lessen it. (Starting somewhere next year spring).
Additionally we would love to have a speed-cam wired to the police which costs, depending on the model 6 or 8 million HUF (18-24k USD or 15-20k EUR). As the village where we live has roughly 500 inhabitants our finances are not big (no factories, etc that would pay taxes here), so the mayor can not buy it instantly on a whim.
My wife and I offered to the mayor to cover about 25% of the costs but the rest is still missing and here comes what I mentioned in the title and I obsessively focus/worry on getting money for this (and for ourselves as I constantly worry what if I lose my job due to cost reduction).
I've / I'm trying to meditate, with not much success, also though of checking out some stuff in the occultism subreddit, as I'm overall interested in the topic, but I'm too pragmatic and materialistic for that as it seems, also I lack to find the belief that any of the things there would work.
The other part is that my chest/heart "hurts" for weeks now on and off, it might be stress induced reflux, simple stress, but I worry for my health and what and how my wife would do if something happens to me (she works but I make more and cover a significant part of our mortgage and expenses). Additionally to this I started to drink a bit more alcohol (a beer or a dram or scotch every second day mostly), this costs money so I worry about money, but for stress it somehow helps to relax a bit with alcohol, then I'm getting into a spiral.
I guess that would be all for now. Happy to answer any questions and I'm expecting some harsher comments as well but I'll try to live with it.
(I know therapy is an option, but the money it costs is insane, but it's on the table to go that way, but that won't solve the generic political/economical environment I live in).
Posted Dec 9, 2025, 9:38 AM UTC