How To Live A Life As An Introvert, But Still Have the Ability To Go To Public Places Without Falling Into A Panic Mode Because People Are Staring At You — A Quick Guide
Just give up. I’m kidding, I know some things that can help you.
Nail salons are the worst.
My biggest anxiety-inducing moments used to be (other than baby showers):
- Going to any place with a teller such as banks or government places.
- Job Interviews
- Nail Salons
- Hairdressers
- Any place where you walk in and people automatically stop what they’re doing to look at you because you opened the door.
How to deal with all this anxiety?
My little panicky friends, who still read this (because I never follow curation guidelines and thus never get curated), the key is to either keep doing it or not do it all. There is no other way.
What do you mean? — J. Bieber
Well, you’re either going to keep doing the things that give you panic attacks or you’re going to stop doing them completely.
Shut Up And Go
To be clear, these are the steps:
Define what causes anxiety.
For me, one of the million things used to be nail salons, for several reasons.
First, everyone always stares at you when you walk in.
Second, they always talk about you in front of you or behind your back.
(Like the Seinfeld episode.)
Third, I didn’t feel comfortable sitting there for an hour. We have nothing to talk about, yet, we have to talk. Why? Same thing with hairstylists. Or tattoo artists.
Go and do it today.
You have to do it. Baby steps though, you don’t have to go to a party alone today. But you’re gonna have to do it. There is no way around it.
Here are some thoughts to keep you sane:
No one cares about you.
People are thinking about themselves. They got places to go and things to do.
People forget things, so even if you embarrass yourself in the worst way imaginable (I don’t know, diarrhea in your pants at an opera or something) they will forget about it tomorrow because life happens. People have other things to worry about.
Picture the worst thing that can happen, visualize it, live trough the embarrassment in your own house. Now you’re prepared for the worst, everything else will be easier.
That’s it, that’s the quickest thing you can do today.
After today, do it again.
It’s not that simple — You
Yes, yes it is.
