This is one of the areas where 'mental health' is misused.
Anxiety is totally normal, it's the bodys way of managing situations where we are at risk.
What's happened is that anxiety has become a concept where the feeling of anxiety means it's something we shouldn't do or challenge because 'mental health'.
So many people are using 'anxiety' as a reason not to do something because it makes them feel uncomfortable, nervous or 'anxious'
Which is very different to someone meeting criteria for an actual mental illness of a specific anxiety disorder.
Social interaction including speaking on the 'phone to unfamilar people, crowds, queues, public speaking, meeting new people, taking tests or exams are all things that commonly cause anxiety.
But most of the time, people can do those things but it causes them to feel uncomfortable or experience low-level distress.
Which has become a reason not to do it because the person can say it makes me 'have anxiety'.
Which perpetuates the problem because people increasingly restrict their behaviours and aren't challenged because people think anxiety-mental health.
Which can then result in actual anxiety disorders.
But the problem is that for a few years, 'anxiety' was treated as a mental illness and not normal which gets worse the more people avoid things they find make them feel 'anxious'