This IS a good thread ~ Thank you for starting it.
So many times I have these vague fears that I can't name, that just make me feel weird and abnormal. This is one, this fear of some public places like stores.

The other day I found myself grocery shopping as if someone was watching what I was selecting and judging the selection, etc. I realized that it feels this way very often!

It doesn't help that there are forty-eleven brands and varieties of every product! For example, something little like buying a can of peaches. This one or that one? This type of peach or that one? Regular or lite (what's in that lite one anyway?)
And I LIKE canned peaches. But I feel like I 'shouldn't' like canned peaches, that I should only want fresh, and organic if possible, peaches. Why canned anything? There is a whole produce section of fresh things right over there. And what are you going to have with those canned peaches? Cottage cheese? Well that's just fat! (even though I buy low or no fat). Sometimes I can't even reach for what I want.

Which is probably why I order delivery pizza when I get home.

But that's what I feel like much of the time I'm out shopping. I don't shop for pleasure, just for necessities. But I feel like every choice has to be 'justified' and it makes the shopping soooo exhausting.