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Phone calls dread

RuthTaylor

Hello All,

Does anyone else here dislike talking to the people on the phone and dread making or receiving phone calls?

I don't like speaking to people on the phone and would rather text, WhatsApp, Skype or email people.  If I do use the phone it is only to speak to my husband, my dad or for work.  I always like to keep telephone conversations short as well.

Does anyone else have this issue?  Talking to people on the phone seems to be making me more and more anxious the older I get.

Thanks for your time :-)

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  • It depends who to.  Calls for medical reasons are a nightmare - I tend to write, e-mail, anything instead of call them. I know the anxiety will have me in shutdown and I'll make zero sense, if I can say anything at all.  For other official purposes, yes, they make me nervous and exhaust me.  The turn taking is harder to figure and I'm always afraid I haven't expressed what I mean how I mean it.  Job interview stuff is especially hard.

    My boyfriend, close friends and family; the people I'm always unmasked with, are fine, I can chat for hours - except my parents but that's because they are deaf as posts and conveying anything needs to be in carefully enunciated monosyllables, lol

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  • It depends who to.  Calls for medical reasons are a nightmare - I tend to write, e-mail, anything instead of call them. I know the anxiety will have me in shutdown and I'll make zero sense, if I can say anything at all.  For other official purposes, yes, they make me nervous and exhaust me.  The turn taking is harder to figure and I'm always afraid I haven't expressed what I mean how I mean it.  Job interview stuff is especially hard.

    My boyfriend, close friends and family; the people I'm always unmasked with, are fine, I can chat for hours - except my parents but that's because they are deaf as posts and conveying anything needs to be in carefully enunciated monosyllables, lol

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