Relationship Anxiety

[taracetamol]

I have recently started seeing a man and I am in a constant battle to not sabotage it due to extreme anxiety.
I have had several bad relationships and I am struggling to not let past experiences spoil things. On the surface there isn't anything to worry about, but I'm ill from how nervous I am. I expect every message to say he doesn't want to see me, every date to be a break up, every read message left unanswered a hint he is sick of me.
I really can't go on like this and I don't know what to do. I have been so badly treated by men previously that I don't know how to open up and be honest.

Any tips? Any coping mechanisms? I'm in my 30s and this has been a build up of decades worth of...I guess trauma.

Should also say, I struggle with anxiety and depression and take fluoexetine and propranolol for them but it is not fully negating the issues.

It’s so hard to jet go of past traumas … it hard to move on when you are stuck in the past snd scared!!!

I know how you feel, iv so glad I worked through it but here is a huge hug to you 🤗🤗