[Avshalom]

Not to try and armchair psychologist here but one of the things that reddit and hn have going for them is that there is no commitment there. Laundry is a whole damn thing, you've gotta be there in an hour or two to hang stuff up, then you eventually have to take it down, and you probably want to fold it (even if you don't (like me) some part of you says you're supposed to)... None of this hard and there lots of non active time but it's still committing to a course for the next X hours. Refreshing your email doesn't commit you to anything.

and again, not saying I know you or that you have anxiety but: it's inside that instinctive avoidance of commitment that the anxiety can hide without ever making you actually aware of itself.