anxiety is building up all your courage to simply tell a waiter or waitress your order anxiety is dreading to receive gifts because you don't think your reaction will be good enough anxiety is remaining silent at a family dinner because you're afraid of them judging your every sentence anxiety is texting someone then wishing you hadn't for fear of them forgetting you ever existed anxiety is hesitating to ring someone's doorbell for the fear of forgetting what you were going to say anxiety is spending hours at night practicing conversation for tomorrow to please your friends anxiety is going over what you're going to say when you raise your hand so you won't mess up for once anxiety is me a.c.