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.
Hey! I have this same problem BAD and I finally just accepted it and now I have multiple places I keep lists.
I ended up building a bookmarklet that you can take notes on for when you need to write something down but the “wall of awful” caused by opening your main Todo list app is too much. It’s free and you can check it out here