Hello, for a long time I’ve been anxious about this, I’m not exactly sure what this is or if it has a name so I’m just going to explain it.

A friend of mine sent me something to review, they asked for any critiques/comments about it. So I did, I found a couple of minor edits that needed to be made but then I started to get anxious about sending those edits over. I felt that I must be wrong and that those weren’t edits that should be made and that I way just thinking too much into it or misunderstanding what he meant. I wanted to help him though so I ended up sending them over. For one of them he asked me to elaborate, and then that immediately made my anxiety go through the roof, I’m almost certain he didn’t mean anything negative about it but in my eyes that was him basically saying that I was wrong. I started back tracking a bit, explaining what I meant followed often by something like “I’m probably wrong though”. After explaining what I meant, he thanked me and hopped off the call.

This happens fairly often in other pretty different scenarios but I have the same feeling each time. I’m not sure why I get so anxious about this, I’m not sure if I’m just not confident in myself to be right, or to stand up for what I believe is right, or I just don’t want to give false information to someone, or information that they dont need.

Anyone know what this is called, if they experience it, etc.