Commenting
Something I find irritating about my anxiety is my inability to comment on social platforms. Out of all the things that spike my sympathetic system in horrible ways, this has got to be the worst. Whether it’s commenting on a video I really want to scream my lungs to, an Instagram picture that made me a little teary, a TED talk I agree/disagree with; it all just piles in front of me and makes me panic. I’d type a whole essay and then I delete it in seconds. I think it comes from me not being around real people, not sparking any kind of real conversation when I am , freaking out instead because I only hear what they say about what they don’t like.
Trying to get over this slowly by typing nice words or replying privately to someone’s posts doesn’t seem to help either. Need to take that inner critic. She’s stopping me from all things different.
