Anxiety is weird

[Gizmo]

Anxiety is weird. I can be at a packed, sold-out concert surrounded by thousands of people and feel completely fine, like it’s easy to just exist in that space. But a phone or video call with close friends or family can feel really difficult for me.

It’s not even something I can clearly explain or link to pressure or anything obvious. It just feels like something flips in my head depending on the situation, and I don’t really know why.

Anyone else experience this kind of mismatch where certain social situations feel easy, and others don’t—even if you can’t pinpoint why?

 

[Krissycakes09]

Totally opposite for me. A concert would be way to much for me but a phone or video call is okay for me.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I have social anxiety so I hate calling people on the phone and talking on the phone in general. When I need to make appointments I get super nervous. I can talk to my Mom on the phone just fine though. I also need to renew my license this week and I'm nervous just thinking about it since I hate talking to people in person too.

 

[Allenafaith]

Anxiety is weird. I can be at a packed, sold-out concert surrounded by thousands of people and feel completely fine, like it’s easy to just exist in that space. But a phone or video call with close friends or family can feel really difficult for me.

It’s not even something I can clearly explain or link to pressure or anything obvious. It just feels like something flips in my head depending on the situation, and I don’t really know why.

Anyone else experience this kind of mismatch where certain social situations feel easy, and others don’t—even if you can’t pinpoint why?

I totally understand. Mines a bit different. I’m fine in situations I’m familiar with….but I went to my oldest child’s new school last week to turn in papers for registration and I was shaking so bad. Also, as far as calling on the phone goes, as long as I know the person, I can handle it. If it’s anything else, I have a hard time and try to make anyone else do it unless I’m at work…but maybe that’s because my brain knows for a fact that I HAVE to make that phone call and no one else can make it for me because it’s literally my job.

 

[Katrina]

Being nervous about things is perfectly normal. I think that the term "anxiety" is overused in today's society because there are times when I hear people say it when they just mean they're nervous instead of it being a true mental health issue.

I'm not saying anyone here is doing that, but that's what I've experienced out in real life.

I get nervous about things from time to time and yes, I dread making phone calls, but it's not anxiety, it's just that I hate doing that.

I've experienced true anxiety a few times when my thyroid meds were too strong for me. It's been a rare occurrence, but it's totally different from just being nervous about something.

 

[cpvr]

Being nervous about things is perfectly normal. I think that the term "anxiety" is overused in today's society because there are times when I hear people say it when they just mean they're nervous instead of it being a true mental health issue.

I'm not saying anyone here is doing that, but that's what I've experienced out in real life.

I get nervous about things from time to time and yes, I dread making phone calls, but it's not anxiety, it's just that I hate doing that.

I've experienced true anxiety a few times when my thyroid meds were too strong for me. It's been a rare occurrence, but it's totally different from just being nervous about something.

I'm with ya. I also had a bad bout with anxiety a few months ago. My heart was racing(and I felt it beating through my neck) and I thought it was actually my heart itself. Turns out, it was just a bad anxiety attack. However, Anxiety attacks can cause symptoms that are similar to that as well, especially really bad ones. Which, I found out that day.

I had an echo done, ultra sound, along with a stress test, and X rays of my heart & lungs. Everything came back 100% in perfect health, as well.


During this time frame, I ran out of my high blood pressure medications, and cholesteral medications, so I had no idea what the actual issue was, I also take daily anxiety medication as well.

Needless to say, I never had anxiety attacks that were actually that bad before, and that was a rare occurence for me, but I am so glad that I got checked out when I did.

 

[Katrina]

I'm with ya. I also had a bad bout with anxiety a few months ago. My heart was racing(and I felt it beating through my neck) and I thought it was actually my heart itself. Turns out, it was just a bad anxiety attack. However, Anxiety attacks can cause symptoms that are similar to that as well, especially really bad ones. Which, I found out that day.

I had an echo done, ultra sound, along with a stress test, and X rays of my heart & lungs. Everything came back 100% in perfect health, as well.


During this time frame, I ran out of my high blood pressure medications, and cholesteral medications, so I had no idea what the actual issue was, I also take daily anxiety medication as well.

Needless to say, I never had anxiety attacks that were actually that bad before, and that was a rare occurence for me, but I am so glad that I got checked out when I did.

I'm sure that must have been really scary!

My daughter had a bad panic attack when she was in high school and since she had an eating disorder at the time, we thought it was a heart attack (people don't die from eating disorders, they die from organ failure and mostly heart attacks). She said she couldn't breathe and her chest hurt so I called the ambulance and they noticed that she had the "claw hands" which was a telltale sign of a panic attack. After that, if it happened again, I just talked her through it telling her she made it through that first one, so she knew it wasn't a real physical issue and she would be fine. She said that helped.

 

[Shortie_]

I am the same. I can be at a concert with fans that I know are like myself, anxiety and such, but a phone call and I panic.

Even when I am out and about, I get anxious about possibly seeing someone I have not seen in a while, or I get anxious incase someone approaches me about something.

 

[iamawriter]

I have a benign MVP condition which triggers anxiety at the drop of a hat.