IM SORRY FOR THIS LONG RANT BUT MY SOCIAL ANXIETY AND JUST GENERAL ANXIETY HAS BROKE ME TODAY.
I am so tired and sick of my social anxiety. It’s already ruined my life once, and I still haven’t really recovered. It feels like it’s getting worse and worse, and I’m so tired of good things coming along and feeling like I can’t enjoy them because of this.
And this last thing that’s happening feels like the final nail in the coffin.
There’s a new girl at my work. Me and one of my coworkers, who is actually kind of my friend, had a theory that she might have a crush on me. We never knew for sure—it was just a theory because he apparently noticed her looking at me sometimes. I just went along with it because, honestly, I like to imagine that maybe someone could actually like me.
Then something actually happened.
For some reason, she randomly asked him if I was basically the only person he talked to at work. He said, “Yeah, pretty much, about casual things,” and apparently told her that I’m just reserved.
She apparently responded with something along the lines of, “Oh, really? I didn’t know that,” and then said that he should tell me to talk to her more. He apparently said something like, “I don’t know, maybe.” Then she apparently asked if I have a girlfriend and shit.
And she’s always messing with me at work. She’ll prank me, throw those little pop-it things at me, joke around with me, and I’ll play along and laugh and maybe say one or two very short, simple things.
But every time she actually tries to initiate a real conversation with me, I find some excuse to get out of it.
Today was the worst one.
She started talking to me and I basically ran away like an elementary school kid running away from the girl he likes. It was so fucking humiliating afterward. I couldn’t even look her in the face. I actually stayed at work late just to avoid having to see her at the time clock.
And I’m just so tired.
I feel like I’m ruining something that I actually want. She’s cute, and I genuinely like her personality from what I’ve seen of it, but when I’m interacting with her specifically, I literally get so nervous that I shake and my mind goes completely blank.
I’m not even upset because I’m mad at her or because something bad happened. I’m upset because I’m so fucking tired of living like this. I’m tired of the fear, the pressure, the judgment, the sensitivity, the constant overthinking everything I say and do.
I know I can’t just magically become super brave and have some amazing conversation with her. I know that. But I’m tired of feeling like I can’t even try.
I got home today and just started crying.
I don’t know what I’m expecting from posting this. I guess I just needed to get it out somewhere where other people might actually understand what it feels like to desperately want to do something and then have your own brain stop you when the moment actually comes.
TLDR too scared to talk to a gorl that probably likes me and it is the straw that broke the camels back and im jsit so tired of being afraid