I had a social interaction about an hour ago and I feel like I haven’t been able to breath since. This is not new but I feel sick of feeling this way every time I talk to someone that is not my husband.
I feel like I want to escape from my body so that I can wait until this intense anxiety and fear to pass over and come back when it’s subsided. The only thing that remotely feels better is curling up in a ball with volume 1000 music.
I know there are a bunch of resources out there to help with this feeling, I just feel overwhelmed and wondering if anyone has any words of wisdom who might relate.
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Sounds like you might need therapy and medication for your anxiety. It’s normal to feel a little uncomfortable when interacting with strangers. But what you describe sounds like something that needs treatment.
Hey it’s okay, I’ve been there. Try to think more productively, what exactly happened that made you worry afterwards? Don’t tell yourself “everything”, it was probably one specific awkward interaction. Tell yourself, “alright, it’s good to know, maybe in the future it’s best to say nothing when someone mentions _, or go about it differently.” That’s all, there’s nothing you can do to change it, and if a relationship is meant to bloom into something, it WILL, no matter how you act or if you think you’ve said the “wrong” thing. And if it’s not meant to be, there’s no amount of charm that will make things work out.
You didn’t mention that this interaction was a bad one, so maybe you are saying that most/all of your relationships are like this?
If so, maybe you are an extreme introvert OP. I’m not trying to diagnose you, but perhaps doing web searches on that topic could be useful for you.