When you have anxiety your normal mode of being is similar to what you feel while doing improv. Probably even worse. You’re nervous, your thoughts are racing aw

When you have anxiety your normal mode of being is similar to what you feel while doing improv. Probably even worse. You’re nervous, your thoughts are racing away, you have no internal focus or time to think about the actual situation, because you’re too busy worrying what everyone else is thinking. I mean, that’s a normal train ride for me, and it’s not like you even have to talk to other people on the train. It’s also why practice works. The point isn’t to stop being nervous, it’s to stop being terrified. I’m not sure improv is really better than focus groups designed specifically for people with with anxiety, but I can certainly see it being useful. As you might’ve guessed I have anxiety. In my teens I literally couldn’t talk to people I didn’t know. I’d get red in the face and panic myself into being unable of speaking. Thanks to practice I’m now capable of doing stuff like: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lk-4AFOw0tI https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lk-4AFOw0tI without feeling fear. I’m still working on my anxiety though, and part of my therapy is actually being part of a toastmaster group, because the only way to shred the fear,is to experience social situations. Especially ones that give you feedback on your performance, because it shows you, that you really have no clue what other people are thinking, and that what they think about you is mostly positive.