I use a to-do list to remember important tasks. But if I am anxious about a task, just looking at the list triggers my anxiety.

Often I end up closing the list and immediately turning to self-soothing. And because there's no way to know in advance if a task on the list will give me anxiety, this often results in my list being not just unusable but unreadable, preventing me from doing or even remembering the non-anxiety tasks on the same list.