Does anyone have experience or advice to offer about this? I get very anxious over small things, and while I wouldn't say I have extreme anxiety and it doesn't affect my life most of the time, when it does come up it does stop me from doing things and I feel like I'm being ridiculous for no reason.
I get really anxious about things like seeing/speaking to people I consider to be a "higher authority" than me e.g. my landlord, my child's teacher, the school receptionist(!), my childminder, my doctor, my dentist, the health visitor.
Also opening post if I don't know what it is, opening my emails, sometimes getting texts if I feel nervous about something, answering unexpected phone calls and unexpected people at the door.
Making appointments is difficult for me and again I don't know why. I have to really psych myself up to do it and if not given a deadline I just let it go and go and go and then feel even more anxious because I've left it too late and they're going to be confused/annoyed/inconvenienced that I didn't do it earlier. I haven't been to the dentist in about two years and I really need to go, and there are various things around the house that need doing but I haven't mentioned to my landlord and I am worried that if I tell him he will say "Well why on earth didn't you tell me about this before?"
The postman just came while I was writing this and I almost jumped a mile! It's ridiculous and if something is coming up, e.g. a landlord visit this afternoon, I get nervous for a day or so beforehand and this morning I am very jumpy and stressed about it. When he has been I will feel incredibly relieved and he's only coming to have a look at a light fitting which was broken when I moved in 