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Girl/friends anxiety

User Profile: breadjsgood
breadjsgood April 19th, 2024

I'm LDS or Mormon, (spare me lol) and I used to share a ward with a girl I really like and plenty of friends. We hung out at youth events and only really that because I was pretty consistently scared to invite them over. They are all really great including the girl I like, and then our ward split in May of last year, I was the only one out of all my friends to be split up. That basically killed the only interactions I had with them and I hardly see them in school. And so over time I slowly became more and more awkward around them convincing myself that none of them actually cared that I was gone, especially because the only who really expressed genuine care about me leaving was the girl I liked (which only made me like her more). I've barely talked to any of them sense then, and the girl was the only person who consistently talked to me till October, when I finally became way to awkward around her and started avoiding her, she still showed genuine excitement when seeing me for a bit, but I quickly killed that off and now I can barely get a hi. My sister however is in this way stronger than me and she invited the girl and her brother over to hang out with us, my sister doesn't know I like her though. That got me pretty excited though, the girl said that her and her brother are pretty busy RN and she'd get back to us later but that was in December. My stepmom is still trying to set it up but realistically, I don't think she wants to hang out with me. Which makes sense, I don't really participate in any of the humor my generation likes and I mostly thrive off of dad jokes, which makes me feel really out of place and weird. I need advice on how to get past the freaking fear and anxiety that takes over me when I see her, I don't know how to stop it because I'm basically paralyzed whenever she's around me, and all I'm doing is beating myself up about it.

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User Profile: soulsings
soulsings April 20th, 2024

@breadjsgood hi nice to meet you. Anxiety about how to relate to others is very common, especially when we are separated from the thing we shared in common, like classes.

I find when I am anxious, I have to look carefully at what it is I am afraid might happen.  In your case that might be making a journal entry of what is the worst thing that might happen if I talk to these girls.

The other thing I find helpful is to have conversations with a listener here at 7 Cups and talk about my anxieties and fears. Sometimes it just helps to be part of a group discusson on 7 Cups (so I can get used to how conversations go. 

Once you have resolved what you are anxious about and are ready to go out of your comfort zone. You could try apologizing to the girl you like next time you see them and tell them it has really been difficult to not take the same classes together and could we talk in a free block or after school or have lunch together. 

You have nothing to lose in my eyes. What do you think?