An observation I made after chatting with a guy on a dating app. We discussed politics and I said I identified with a political party and he said that he's into politics but he didn't do labels and I felt a slight panic creep up and felt compelled to backtrack so he wouldn't lose interest? Another example, and this is a little more intense, at my place of work there have been chronic issues with our store manager and I was tired of my coworkers constantly talking about him but not doing anything to mitigate the issue (they would spend 15-minutes at a time bitching about him in the back-of-house while I was doing my job, which made me feel alienated, but I digress), I told my coworkers that I planned to discuss these issues at the upcoming meeting and had actually written a list of things to discuss. A coworker whom I deeply admire asked me via messenger what I planned to discuss and I explained myself and she said, "Well... I'm not going to take part in seven people attacking \[boss\]," and I literally had a panic attack.