I have an essential tremor that is anxiety dependent. If I am in public and in the midst of a negative emotion or just nervous or worried that I might be nervous that I’ll shake my hands do.
I have a really bad habit of rolling my eyes that I can not control. Even when I am interested in the conversation and think oh yay I haven’t rolled my eyes *que eyeroll. It can really turn people off. If I feel it coming on I try to hold my eyes extra wide.. Since they are already “frog eyes” I am sure it looks as ridiculous as it feels. So when I think that my eyes roll.
I remember who I did this too and their immediate response and so everytime I see them I usually end up thinking about not eyerolling and start eye rolling so therefore there are scads of people I am not more friendly with simply because I just can’t stop rolling my eyes when I make direct eye contact with them. Sounds funny. And it is.. Sort of.
I love kayaking and boating but am deathly afraid of the water. My parents were against co ed swimming so by the time I became old enough to learn how to swim I had almost drowned so many darn times I started panicking everytime my feet left the bottom of the whatever… or my head went under water. I paid for adult classes because I think I would love it and because I risk other people when I boat with them. I chickened out. I don’t know what is stronger fear making a fool out of myself by panicking or actually drowning.
I am a nonreligious person who enjoys singing and occasionally sing hymns but everyone says everytime I sing aloud it ends up sounding like a hymnal.
I over, over analyze everything and I do it so quickly and automatically that even when I consciously try to stop I have already have broken things down to the nth degree and even if I stay busy physically if I have nothing else to occupy my mind i will break down that nth and then start all over…. which is why I constantly have to be learning things or reading things in order to distract myself.