Lindsay Young - Social Anxiety

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Lindsay Young, performing "Social Anxiety".
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[@tylamegz]

These poems are my therapy you know

[@leechteeeeth]

Literally 😭

[@tylamegz]

@@leechteeeeth if I don't have time to attend therapy... these beautiful souls will make sense of my pain

[@willow7939]

This is like- the best explanation- of social anxiety..omg i love this

[@CloutNetTV]

Same

[@SafeToRelax]

For sure

[@notourz]

it is so comforting hearing that other people's social anxiety weighs on them as much as mine does

[@jinxxed5601]

"stop trying to cut out my own tongue".... Felt it !!!!

[@idkitsmeithink]

Her skin is soo perfect wowww

[@kathybramley5609]

I struggle with rooms of poets, making friends. The rooms of poets were some of the easiest conversations that I had had but then it just started to get harder. The affirmations and something about the pose of it or different approaches to it. I don't think I can be in a club that takes itself seriously. Even though I do... and they don't altogether and I don't: it's complicated. Affirmations don't work for anxiety connected to shame or low self-esteem, apparently there's science to back it up. Starting with the science sympathetically but like it's a shield was tempting but not right. My poems spend too much energy dissecting myself, whether in strong lines or flowing at length, because doing so succinctly gives me time to breathe.

[@choochoopicklepie]

“Threatens a smile”
With social anxiety a smile really is a threat

[@poet2681]

This is just WOW . Social anxiety sucks! This poem captures what it feels like so beautifully . Amazing poem and expression Lindsay!

[@DancingMoon23]

I so love this 😭❤️❤️❤️

[@timsmith9043]

💯💯✊✊im okay and im confident like this im going to use this

[@Freetofloat]

Tears

[@basielu]

the vulnerability ❤❤❤

[@moreofmansoor]

Wow

[@adaezenwaguru4046]

this is it! i love this.

[@Nicholas-I]

I am just starting to get in to poems so I can write down how I feel 😌

[@nikkinadeau3650]

YES.

[@Eddiig]

Amazing

[@EvalenaSheets-of7zb]

Bro if somebody asks me what's its like to have anxiety or social anxiety again I'm just gonna show them this.

[@Kj.20]

Real

[@EggsToYourBacon]

Is it bad that I relate to this?

[@crissymarie7769]

This is me

[@SafeToRelax]

Noice