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Looking for help, new here. I work with customers on a daily basis and I get so much anxiety when I need to talk to people. It's gotten to the point where I will ignore guests and wait for someone else to take care of them while I work on my own work. (Which is okay since I work at a car shop) but ideally I want to go out and greet them and help them. I genuinely want to be helpful and talk to them, but I just cant seem to get the words out. I'll open my mouth to speak and all that will come out is air. I feel so bad after because I look like a bumbling idiot when I pause for 5 seconds before attempting to speak or answering their questions. I also can't stand ordering food or talking in other places. It's the same thing. I look like an idiot when I walk up to a cashier and just stand there with my mouth open breathing heavily trying to get the words out like an idiot. I have a few coping mechanisms like sort of voicing out a prefix to my sentence in my head and continuing with my voice, which works sometimes but half of the time it doesn't work and just delays my speaking by two times as much. Any tips on how I can speak a bit better maybe? It's really frustrating and this hasn't gone away as long as I can remember.