To everyone actively avoiding the phone. Please stop doing it. I know it’s easier said than done. Start slow. But it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more you avoid it and tell yourself that you can’t do it, the greater the fear will be. Thus, the harder it gets to talk on the phone. It’s a downward spiral. What’s the worst that can happen? Another person thinking weirdly about you? If that’s all, you have nothing to fear. Your life will be indifferent when the sun goes up again. Of course it’s not easy as that. But I find this kind of reflection always helps in changing the perspective.