Anxiety around certain people?

Do you ever feel anxious around certain people or a particular person?
I do and it's almost crippling.

Most definitely and I understand what you mean when you say it's almost crippling.

Usually there's a fear around it, like that the person/people will judge me, or I feel it's especially important that I don't mess up and do something embarrassing. Sometimes it's because they are just down right unpleasant to deal with.

Are you having therapy? Have you found any techniques to help?

Thatperson1 wrote:Do you ever feel anxious around certain people or a particular person?

Yup.

I do and it's almost crippling.

Same.

i understand, it sucks. i myself have yet to find some ways to deal with this.

I have the same problem. I have a hard time making eye contact and talking to therapists and psychiatrists. I have switched because of this but it doesn't matter who they are or what they do because it is me. I can talk to most other people.

Yes, I call them "trigger people". There's only... maybe 2 people at the moment who do this, but I'm also in a really bad mental place with them which is a huge issue for me at the moment that Im trying to overcome.

I find her very undermining - fake nice.
I second guess everything I say around her and how i should act etc.
I will literally spend days thinking about things I had said etc. It's horrible

mentalpeace wrote:I will literally spend days thinking about things I had said etc. It's horrible

I do this, too. I don't know why I care so much about the particular people that do this. I like how you termed them trigger people. The trigger people in my life have changed throughout the years as I have moved or have ceased to be around them. However, I'm occasionally haunted by things I said to them years ago. Objectively speaking, it wasn't that bad but in my head it was the worst.

I have anxiety around almost everybody in my general neighborhood because I feel like everybody knows what I'm up to: struggling with anxiety, depression, reality loss and not progressing much at all in life. I feel embarrassed. If I go on a trip somewhere my anxiety is relieved a little because I feel like people don't know me.
I have anxiety around my family as well. I feel like such a failure to them. The one person I have anxiety around the most is my dad. There's always that huge 'ellefant' in the room sort of feel around him. I get internally pissed around him, my thoughts become negative when I'm around him, he annoys the crap out of me, I'm tense around him, the air is tense when we are together. I feel like he want's to tell me something but won't. like he won't share his true feelings about me...

Yes, my friend was facing this problem. She use to be so anxious being in contact with strange people. She uses to fear talking to people I do not why she use to feel like this. Then someone told her to consult *mod edit* .

I used by be full blown social anxiety disorder, but, for some reason, after going through a divorce alone at 40 with no support, I snapped out of it and I can now be annoyingly outgoing. However, on occasion, around certain people, I'm a basket case again. I can't talk or I stammer and blush. I can't even explain why, but I think I feel intimidated by them or inferior to them in some way. Hope that helps.

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." I don't know who said it, but it's so true.