postr/StutterFebruary 1, 2020

What have you done to get over phone anxiety?

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What have you done to get over phone anxiety? So, I'm a 28 year old mum. I have major phone anxiety, I started to get over it a couple of years ago but then a real bad call with my doctors office kind of put me right back to where I was before. So, I have finally found a job in the area in which which I was trained to work.. But I have to answer phones. I don't know if I can do it because of that gut wrenching, stomach drop I feel whenever the phone rings. I have now spent an hour laying on my kitchen floor, trying to record a fluent greeting in hopes that I can play that and it will translate in a reasonable quality through the phone so I can skip that initial hurdle. It will probably fail but I tried. What kind of odd things have you all done or considered doing to combat the phone problems?

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Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience

Subthemes

Avoidance & SubstitutionPreparation & RehearsalAnxiety & Social Judgment

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