Yes this is a name change as I expect i will be flamed for this.
I’m in my 40’s, I have a pretty tight friendship group of around 5 couples that DH and I are part of. We don’t get to do nearly as much together these days as we did when we were younger but we still try and socialise as often as we can. Except it’s getting more difficult because virtually everyone seems to have anxiety about something or other. Anxiety about crowds, anxiety about unfamiliar situations, anxiety about travelling, anxiety about leaving the dog.
These are professional adults. Am I unreasonable to be utterly bored with this excuse of anxiety to not do stuff. Even the things we do manage to do together provokes a long discussion while at said event about how their anxiety almost prevented them from attending/made the run in difficult as they were so anxious.
i know talking about mental health is a good thing. But how come virtually every single adult I know in close quarters now seems to have a MH condition? It’s wearing.
im not saying I never get nervous about stuff, of course I do, but surely that’s normal, it’s not anxiety?
im just becoming frustrated about never being able to suggest things like concerts, dinner, the cinema without having to take multiple anxieties into account and eventually agreeing to a few drinks in someone’s house purely to actually see these people that i really do love.