Do you ever feel like you’re too awkward to function?

That you overanalyze everything about a situation and can’t get out of your own head? I obsess over things I have no control over and dwell on mistakes (but are they really mistakes?) or decisions (or lack thereof) and make myself crazy.

I’m reassured that it happens to everyone by my close friends, that I was fine in that social situation, but then the feeling never leaves.

There are times when I actually feel funny and charming, but in that moment I become self-aware and immediately regret everything that I’ve done or felt in that period.

Some of us are built this way. We can’t control that inner critic and, at times, are held back because we can’t stop that loud voice telling us “NO.”