I (23f) have pretty severe anxiety which affects my ability to socialize and date. I’ve dated in the past, but before my anxiety got so bad. I have had options to hook up and have relationships but have felt too nervous/inadequate to seriously pursue them. I think about hooking up all the time, but worry that I am too anxious to ever do it again.
Since it has been a little over a year since I’ve done this, I fear it will never happen for me. I am newly out of college, and only running out of time to have sex or find someone to date. I know this is mostly anxiety based, but it feels very real to me that I will never be with someone again. I’m terrified to get too old to date or that I will be so out of it that I’ll forget how to be with someone again. I’m trying to accept that this may never happen, but it feels unnatural and breaks my heart a little bit.
Has anyone overcome these feelings, or experienced something similar and come out on the other side?
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