I dont have diagnosed anxiety and i don’t claim to have it but ever since something happened online in the spring I (18F) have  had a huge fear of the internet and making internet friends.  Before this happened internet friends used to be a huge part of my life and I had them all the time.  I kept my guard up for a while and would barely ever make internet friends but in the fall i joined a groupchat talking about a show and I let my guard down a little.  Slowly we’ve become a lot closer and we talk everyday.  However ,  I randomly feel bursts of anxiety about these people , that they’re lying to me , that they’re going to hurt me and that they’re going to use things I say against me.  When I think rationally I know this is crazy and I trust them and I know just as much information about them , if not more but when I get anxious these thoughts overwhelm me and I feel extremely guilty for even having internet friends in the first place.  I really enjoy talking to these people and I don’t want to stop but these moments of anxiety are horrible and I hate having them.  Im so tired of it affecting me.  I deleted instagram this morning because of anxiety and I don’t even feel any better.  I feel guilty because I feel like i’m harming my family in some sort of way but I also know for a fact i’m not.  The most they know is the state I live in and stuff about me but nothing that compromises my safety.  I don’t know how to fix this.  When I had constant anxiety about death I eventually made myself not worried but this feels 100 times worst because i feel like I can’t even breathe.