Social Anxiety

[LoVeMyBaBiEs]

I have really bad anxiety and I get really anxious about social situations. I’ve got my sons birthday coming up and I love throwing him a little party but I am going to worry about it for weeks before hand.

I think I’m just worried about being judged and I hate when any attention is on me. I’m fine with going to other family parties. I’ve tried all the techniques such as breathing and some other ones I got from my psychologist but it just doesn’t seem to make me stop worrying. Even though I know it’ll all be fine, I can’t stop. I don’t see my psychologist for another month and just wondering if anyone has anything that works for them?

I’ve always felt this way before anything that I have to organise or any social event where I don’t know many people but I’m only starting to recognise that it’s anxiety now.

[Amond]

I’m so sorry to hear u r going through this.

‘Is your child quite young ? Honestly you might be surprised by the number of young Mums that are completely stressed out by hosting their kids birthday parties, even my most confident self assured friends. So there’s definitely a spectrum of anxiety around kids parties for many people and you may be at the further end of intensity compared to most people but that’s okay.

I honestly look back on my parties and think I wish I could have been more relaxed. I bet there will be one or two Mums there who are feeling awkward and feel like they don’t know the others well. I can tell u for sure I was one of them. Hone in on those mums as they will want to talk & u can focus putting them at eat rather than yourself.

‘Another thing I did with my friend who stresses about parties like I did we went to each others party and played the hostess so I went to hers where I didn’t know any of the Mums and took food etc around while she was in the kitchen and we would swap but if one of us is stressed we just give each other the sign and step in to help or send her into the kitchen so she can have break. Have you got someone like that?