My anxiety has been really high and I struggle off and on with it. I've been criticized for being too intense, too emotional, too caring, too communicative, and now I feel like the only thing left to do is to build a moat and go live on my private internal island. Or some really high walls. Contain my emotion and close off. Because if I am too everything, then why expose anything? In fact, why interact with people when I am just "too"?

IF you have any resources, ideas, etc. for building a tough shell, bring them on. Please.