I feel like I could be given any situation (and I mean any) and be hyper aware of the number of potential options I may have and freak out because I don’t know which option is correct. And that’s really at the crux of this because everyone says there is no right way to behave, but the “right” way is more than not rewarded somehow. And people who don’t behave the “right” way are treated as less than
An example I'll give for how they're different is that I can feel anxious just because I have to pee and I'm too distracted by some other thing to know why I'm feeling anxious until my body taps me on the shoulder and calls me a dummy. Anxiety is more like a feeling.
Ahh. From your comment and others in this thread, it sounds like what I’m describing is an inability to describe some emotion that’s causing an adverse effect