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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2lTjcQg:Psychologists Explain Your Phone Anxiety (and How to Get Over It):
mhalachai:
this goes into the reasons behind why so many of us have a hard time making phone calls.
This article is sort of right and sort of doesn’t go far enough? I hate the phone because I don’t understand what people say on it, and I have a ton, now, of direct feedback of phone calls going poorly because I didn’t understand the conversation. There’s nothing irrational about it so it seems reductive to call it a phobia, for me. It’s more like empirical, observed experience: I hate making phone calls because I fuck them up every time. What was just nervousness is now downright dread.
I can make phonecalls for work all day long, and do, because there are only ever a couple of things people need to know, there, and so I don’t have to really understand them on any deep level.
I can’t call someone and ask a question, though, because I know now that I’ll fuck that up.
mhalachai:
this goes into the reasons behind why so many of us have a hard time making phone calls.
This article is sort of right and sort of doesn’t go far enough? I hate the phone because I don’t understand what people say on it, and I have a ton, now, of direct feedback of phone calls going poorly because I didn’t understand the conversation. There’s nothing irrational about it so it seems reductive to call it a phobia, for me. It’s more like empirical, observed experience: I hate making phone calls because I fuck them up every time. What was just nervousness is now downright dread.
I can make phonecalls for work all day long, and do, because there are only ever a couple of things people need to know, there, and so I don’t have to really understand them on any deep level.
I can’t call someone and ask a question, though, because I know now that I’ll fuck that up.
