Over the past two years in the pandemic, I (20F) worked on my viscous circle of cutting myself from socializing in order to stop my social anxiety. That cycle was my biggest factor with my depression, as I always repeated my conversations to the point I found myself annoying.

I rly feel like I made progress with that portion. I no longer cut myself off and if I find myself annoying, I just tell myself my friends are still here for a reason.

But I found myself dealing with more overthinking in another aspect. Whenever I respond to strangers or friends or anyone that doesn’t know about my social anxiety, I take 3-7 hours to respond to them and I’m stressing about my response. For example recently I engaged in dating apps. Hell I took 7 hours to respond to one person cause I was trying to form the best response ever. It stressed me out and distracted me from other priorities.

I was wondering is there a good solution to deal with this type of overthinking? I would always question myself about the best outcomes or best response and worst outcome and all that to the point that it distracts me from my actual life