Dungeon Anxiety!

[TheCodeMonk]

I have tank anxiety in dungeons for sure...same reason, too. I tend to be much slower through content and people consider it "old". It's never as bad as I envision it, but the anxiety remains. The only "cure" has been running with good friends I trust who will guide or who I know are fine if I screw up occasionally. Otherwise, the only way to get through it is just to push through and do it, dealing with the near panic attack feelings the whole way.

[HawkguyZero]

I can totally relate to this. Being medicated for my anxiety disorder helps, but there's something about queuing up with strangers that takes everything to the next level for me. There is a lot of deep breathing involved when I'm thinking about jumping in the duty finder, and I'm still around 50% for "spaz out and don't do it".*

I'm always happy to team up with fellow Anxious Ones if it will make for a better experience, so definitely feel free to shoot me a friend request in game! I'm still a noob (max level is 27 at the moment), so I might not actually be helpful, but I also won't lose my mind if things suddenly go downhill.

*Anxiety is weird. Don't try to make sense of it.

[Holy-chan]

I can totally relate to this. Being medicated for my anxiety disorder helps, but there's something about queuing up with strangers that takes everything to the next level for me. There is a lot of deep breathing involved when I'm thinking about jumping in the duty finder, and I'm still around 50% for "spaz out and don't do it".*

I'm always happy to team up with fellow Anxious Ones if it will make for a better experience, so definitely feel free to shoot me a friend request in game! I'm still a noob (max level is 27 at the moment), so I might not actually be helpful, but I also won't lose my mind if things suddenly go downhill.

*Anxiety is weird. Don't try to make sense of it.

I swear, I would send you a friend request if we were on the same server.

Anxiety in a video game is one thing. Anxiety in real life is a whole different level. If it prevents you from leading a "normal" life, and eats at you constantly at every simple (in the perspective of the average person) task, that's really, really hard.

[HawkguyZero]

I swear, I would send you a friend request if we were on the same server.

My approach to MMOs tends to be "ALL THE ALTS!", so if I find myself on your server I'll look you up!

[Meghann]

Fellow dungeon anxiety sufferer here as well, I am very lucky that my partner IRL also plays and he runs dungeons with me, my problem is I think everyone has such high expectations on this game that any little mistake or death I have, I place such high expectations on myself as well, even if it's a dungeon I have never ran before, mostly I run it just fine though but I do know exactly how you feel.

[Jonnycbad]

I have major social anxiety but I'm actually very confident in game and I lead a groups to clears. Weird. I can't imagine being virtually shy.