Hi @Former-Member I understand that feeling of not wanting to talk. I was just about to feed my niece and nephew (almost 9 months old) the other night when my anxiety hit and I felt unable to give them their dinner - as the effort to talk to them and get them to eat was too difficult. I ended up swapping places with my mother, who was in the middle of cooking dinner at the time, though she wasn't happy about it. 

@PeppiPatty Though I live with my parents, they've never been real good at the emotional support thing. I finally told my mum the other night that I've been feeling anxious of an evening and she ended up asking me 'just what is it that's making you so anxious'. I told her that I didn't know, but that wasn't a satifying answer for her. She wants something conclusive like, it's because I have an exam coming up or I'm scared to go to sleep. It's like when I was growing up and I would get upset when someone was mean to me, the standard answer I got was 'just ignore them'. I got the same response when I returned from a trip to Movie World and told her that while on a ride the people behind me had verbally abused me, pulled my hair, hit me over the head and spat on me. Yet all I needed was a hug and permission to cry.