Trapped in a Crowd: Living with Social Anxiety
We Practice Conversations You'll Never Hear! H ey oh wait, should I say ''hey''? Does that sound too casual? '' hi'' is better. But ''hi'' sounds dry. What if I just smile? Or wave? Or- Nevermind. I'll just pretend I didn't see them. Welcome to the daily inner monologue of someone with social anxiety.... We're the ones who replay ''hey'' in our heads like it was a TED Talk. We reherse how to ask ''How have you been?'' We write and delete texts five times before sending ''okay'' We plan what to say, then say nothing and walk away overthinking it anyway. That's social anxiety- not loud, not dramatic. Just mentally exhausting.... 🧠It's Not That We Don't Know What To Say- We've already said it ten times in our heads. Most of us with social anxiety aren't clueless about how conversations work. In fact, we've already had the conversation- beginning to e...
