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29/08/2026 2:12 pm
This might sound oddly specific, but phone calls come up surprisingly often when people talk about anxiety.
Even when it’s someone you know. The phone rings, there’s that instant jolt, you let it go to voicemail — and then spend much longer thinking about returning the call than the call itself would probably take.
Anyone else? And if phone calls aren’t your thing, what’s one completely ordinary situation that anxiety somehow manages to make complicated?