The thing that I hate the most that my anxiety makes me do (at least I hope it’s my anxiety making me do it) is lying to avoid feeling embarrassed. For example, today when my coworker asked me why I was looking sad, instead of telling the truth and saying that I had found out my pet is terminally ill and needs to be put to sleep, I lied and said my mum was sick. In the moment it seemed like it would be so embarrassing to admit that I was as sad as I was about the end of my pet’s life, so I made up this weird lie that I now have to remember in case my coworker asks me about my mum’s “illness” later. I’m gonna be stressing about getting caught out in this lie for weeks, when it would’ve been so easy and logical to just tell the truth. Actually it’d be far more embarrassing to be caught lying about something like that. I’m trapped in so many of these lies that I have to keep straight in my head, and I can’t seem to stop. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have any tips on how I can stop?