I have anxiety when people don't call/Don't answer.

Hey people, it's been a long time since I've logged on here...
My situation (though I don't thinka anyone actually remember it) has only worsened and now I've developped an horrible anxiety everytime my friends don't answer or don't call me when I called them...
It's just so bad I have to shut down the phone to avoid checking on it like every sec...
I hate that...I hate my phone...I hate how clingy ive become to my bestfriend and how i've bee feeling so alone rejected and abandoned lately...
i dont want spending all the time thinking ''when is he/she calling back'' or making excuse to call people more than like 2 times...or spending hours not being able to concentrate on whatever is it I am trying to do because of the anxiety...
It has been this way since me and my bf broke up and many othe stressful things happened this past few months...im scared i will be alone forever

Funnily enough I have the exact opposite problem. I have anxiety when people call so I have to hide my phone away for days at a time, shutting myself off from society.

Do you feel anxious because you're worried something happened to them, or because you think they're ignoring you? Surely you wouldn't answer immediately either if you were in the shower, or making dinner, or busy with something else (like shopping, etc).

surewhynot said:

Funnily enough I have the exact opposite problem. I have anxiety when people call so I have to hide my phone away for days at a time, shutting myself off from society.

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What's the worst that could happen to you if you answered the phone? Stuttering a little? No one's gonna care.

Sacrament said:

Do you feel anxious because you're worried something happened to them, or because you think they're ignoring you? Surely you wouldn't answer immediately either if you were in the shower, or making dinner, or busy with something else (like shopping, etc).



What's the worst that could happen to you if you answered the phone? Stuttering a little? No one's gonna care.

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I don't have anxiety when they don't answer and then call back after like an hour or so. And I don't have it with everyone.
just with the boy I like and with my best ''friend''...we used to talk on the phone for hours and she always answered or call back soon...now it can goes whole day before I hear from her. I haven't seen her in days.
I'm worried for two reasons, first, i know something has happened to her (her mentally controlling abusive douchebag of a partner has been even more of a controlling douchbag and worse lately, her situation at home is horrible) and I'm always afraid something even worse will happen or that she's getting more and more depressed to the point she will/won't even talk...and im afraid she's drifting away from me for some reasons....the situation in our lives have always been bad but this has never happened before...
i don't know how to help her or what to think...
with the friend i like im always paranoid he doesn't like me anymore and when it goes a long time before he calls back or call me on his own i start to get all paranoid over stuff çç
the anxiety i feel these days is just awful...

i just assume they are not available at the moment

I am in the exact same boat as you except i just got over a crush and the holidays are not helping, i understand completely. I just joined this site so I'm new to this to, Ive been clinging and constantly texting people. Maybe you should find someone that can be a person you can confide or is looking for someone to talk alot like you do... GOOD LUCK!!!:thumbup: