*I posted this on the “social anxiety” sub but I wanted to see if anyone on this sub related.*


Has anyone else ever feared that there was someone, like a co-worker, a friend of a friend, etc., who didn’t like you but you couldn’t quite put your finger on it? So of course that exacerbates your anxiety over whether or not you’re overthinking if they dislike you, and it makes you awkward or silent around them. Then one day, something happens (or a series of things that happen) to make it finally click that they legitimately don’t care to talk to you, get to know you, whatever, and all of a sudden your anxiety over whether or not they dislike you is gone. Dissipates. You go from one extreme (obsessing about finding the flaw(s) within you to make them not like you, to complete isolation, or rather just completely apathetic toward them. Not rude or short, you just all of a sudden don’t care one bit that they don’t like you or care to ever talk to you.

Does anyone else experience that? Like, once you KNOW someone doesn’t like you, you’re at least not anxious anymore about the NOT knowing.