Does anyone else get intense anxiety when you have to make a phone call? Email or text is fine, but a phonecall is stressful, even if it's insignificant.
Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. But emails are awful too. Most of them i write at least 4 revisions before I send them.
All the time. And it doesn't matter that, when I do make the call, everything goes very well. The social anxiety is ever present.
Having alternative means of communication (texts (messages & FB Messenger), e-mail & Phone) helps ease comm-angst. Each means has different constraints & advantages.
That’s definitely me. It’s tough because we are trying to rent a new home, and I’m a stay at home mom so I “should” be the one handling the phone calls but I’m going through a tough time right now so my husband has to juggle the phone calls and his job.
Yes I don't like it, it caused my problems in my younger years growing into an adult, I couldn't make many calls that I needed to. Now I try to avoid it by using emails, websites and texts. Also phoning call centres to get any help for communications and banking etc is impossible as they're overseas and cannot speak English fluently, they often cannot help even if they understand me and such a waste of my time, that would be the most anxiety producing phone call experience for me.
I am so glad that a lot of problems, bills, ordering and whatever else can be done on line via text or email, no humans needed most of the time.
Yes! I would rather instant message or text than to talk...
Yes! I would rather instant message or text than to talk...
In the days of answering machines, I'd speak so quickly that my message was sometimes, or often, unintelligible.
With people, any straying from the script renders me dumb. It happens face to face, too.
Not with everyone; only with some people – mostly strangers. But sometimes with not-strangers ('friends' is too kind a word, and 'acquaintances' is inappropriate as well.)
It is an accursed thing.
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