I am curious if anyone else has new anxiety issues. What I mean by that is do you now have anxiety doing something that in the past was completely without anxiety?

IE Many years ago I was loud and goofy. I was in multiple high school plays. I performed solos in band. All with ZERO anxiety. (or at least I did not allow any anxiety limit me). I did find it very hard to make friends - because I have never felt secure in my own skin.....

Now I doubt I could do any of those things. Currently I get very anxious - to the point of feeling sick and having such an upset stomach if will give me diarreah (sorry if that is gross). I can not express how much I hate "small talk" with people. And I very literally have nobody that I would call a friend - with the possible exception of a few people I knew years back from high school.

So how did I get to this point when I once was pretty much limitless???

I do not know if that even makes sense to any of you. But I am curious for your input.