Is it weird to have overwhelming anxiety on the internet?

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Okay, so I get the feeling this is particularly odd, but I get anxiety over literally everything on the internet. It’s always been this way. I won’t look up the name of my favorite character because I’m embarrassed, I won’t open comment sections or dwell on things that I would be embarrassed of because it gives me a crazy strong feeling of vicarious embarrassment. Seriously, everything I do, it feels like the internet is judging me, even though I know this is insanely irrational. I’ve never met anyone who feels similar.

Clarification: posting this doesn’t give me anxiety. Most of what makes me uncomfortable is vicarious or just the feeling my interests are being judged if I look them up. However being misunderstood/publicly embarrassed(even anonymously) gives me anxiety as well.

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  • Chippo_Man
    5 years ago

    Incognito mode

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      If only that changed my irrational mind.

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  • mattypattpatt
    5 years ago

    Normal yes. Anxiety is very common and comes in many forms. Yet somehow I doubt you will read this seeing as doing so would cause you anxiety? However if you do, just know that the words you read online (including these) are just the weightless opinions of faceless judges, whose courts hold no authority, and that you are worth more than the sum of the value ascribed to you by strangers.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      Updated- hope it makes more sense now.

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      • mattypattpatt
        5 years ago

        Well I'm not sure really what to say except I hope you find what you're looking for, and anxiety can be rough to deal with. I suffered with it growing up, and I still suffer it today. Just know that what other people think of you is irrelevant in the face of what YOU think of you. Good luck

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      I should have mentioned why this doesn’t bother me. I’ll add an edit, sry for confusion.

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  • Appareson
    5 years ago

    By asking this question here you are opening letting the internet judge you. So I begin to doubt your sincerity here unless you are subconsciously ok with it but consciously aren't which isn't too normal.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      I’m not worried about my own posts, except for them being taken in the wrong direction(hence I could never troll because I don’t want people to think even an anonymous version of me is like that). Most of this fear is from feeling I’m being judged for what I’m looking up or feeling vicariously embarrassed for other people(even though they likely aren’t embarrassed).

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