More often than I admit

Absolutely every single time, for emails as well, but less so.

Lately there was a really nice upgrade to my home countries medical system. I no longer have to call to get a prescription or actually open a sick leave. I can do it all through a webpage.

Recently I’ve been wanting to contact my town gov about an issue. Someone gave me a number I should try calling. “Yeah I’ll call them sometime… but obviously not today… that’s too soon.” 2 weeks later

Just made the call yesterday after psyching myself up and… that department couldn’t help me, but they gave me the number of another department to call. I wrote it down, thanked them, hung up, then proceeded to freak out about the prospect of making a SECOND phone call in the span of a few minutes. I legitimately almost didn’t do it.

I have a referral from my doctor for an assessment, took a couple years to work myself up enough to ask and now I've been looking at it daily since July thinking "maybe tomorrow".

Its pretty bad but in the past I have crashed my computer just when I started speaking in a teams call from fear. Simple meeting really, but as I stuttered my hands just instinctively went to the terminal and I had issued a command knowing it would drop me from the meeting and force my computer to reboot.

All. The. Time.

It doesn't go as well in other languages, either.

I keep melting down and panicking.

"a minute" lol

i was going to say for emails and text message too. lol

Then mumble like an idiot and say the wrong things. Speak too loud or too fast. Then hanging up and forgetting most of what I said.

Yeah. Try, "the rest of the day."

I got a job on a help desk when I was young and it helped immensely with this.