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social arrangements..
I'm a 16 year old girl. You'd think I'd be responsible by now...but I can't even call and arrange things. I think it's a social phobia or something. But if I were to, lets say, call an office...I wouldn't do it unless I absolutely HAD to ..I wouldn't feel comfortable, I'd start getting extremely anxious...sometimes sweating....and I'd think about that phone call in advance for a long time. When really, if I think about it AFTER...it's just a little phonecall. Well, today..I have to visit an office and give something to a doctor...And I have to do it all by myself. I'm all anxious and scared and I don't know what to do. Is this social anxiety? Whenever I have to make appointments, I get freaked out as well. And talking on the phone isn't my thing at all...
Ahhh. O_O
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im the same way, on the phone, and talking to people i don't know. i remember the first time i want to the dentist on my own i was freaking out, and i probably wouldn't have done it if my tooth hadn't been killing me.
i would say just don't think about it but i know thats hard, best i can offer is think about what's going to happen. your going to walk in, ask for the doctor, give him whatever it is you need to give him, then leave right? thats all. nothing harder than that, its not like you are being sent to kill him, this is easy stuff.
another thing i found that helped is to try and imagine what other people think about you, because iv found over the yeas that they actually don't. they hardly notice you at all when you talk to them, and will probably forget about you after you leave.
sorry i cant be too much help, but i hope you do well today, good luck. ^_^
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I know exactly what you mean, I do this too!
I hate the phone, talking to strangers makes
it even worse. Like you I do it when I
absolutely have to.
I think it probably is a social anxiety.
I'd never walk into a place alone unless
I had to either. I make myself when I have
to, so as long as you can do that, I wouldn't
let it worry you very much.
It would be a problem if you just froze and
didn't do anything out of fear to. :)
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