[dlvktrsh]

I've always had bad social anxiety (and depression) I've always thought of it like this too.

to constantly think about how other percieve me or how they react must be because of some sort of extreme self obsession right?

I don't care what people think of me and I've strayed far off a typical life path but idk how else to explain my social anxiety

[Xplune13]

I've had a similar experience like that. I too have bad social anxiety. It's like in my head I'm watching myself in a third-person view and imagining my response to different people in different scenarios even before doing that activity. Sometimes that third person view is of a person I know (or I am meeting) and I see how my responses or reactions are to the scenarios that might happen.

I've had this for like 5-6 years now and it is at an all time high right now. This constant wandering mind then brings me a lot of anxiety and questions over why did I think the way I did.

I also don't care what people think of me when I'm consciously thinking about the topic, yet I cannot explain this automatic response checking in my head.