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Social Anxiety, Overthinking, People-Pleasing & Surviving Modern Life

Why does modern life feel like one giant social experiment nobody prepared us for?

In this lighter, very unhinged episode of Mutually Unhinged, Lauren and Vicky are talking about the weird things we all experience but somehow pretend are completely normal.

From NPC coworkers and painfully awkward small talk to people-pleasing, social anxiety, overthinking, and the bizarre social rules nobody actually explained to us, we're asking one very important question:

Are we mentally unwell… or is society just weird?

We're getting into the everyday situations that somehow require an unreasonable amount of emotional energy. The conversations you rehearse beforehand, the interactions you replay afterward, the workplace personalities that feel like they were generated by an algorithm, and the things we're apparently all supposed to tolerate without questioning.

Because sometimes what feels like anxiety isn't necessarily a personal failure. Sometimes you're responding to a genuinely strange situation.

And sometimes...

you're just overthinking the hell out of it.

This episode is less “here's how to heal” and more “can we please acknowledge how weird being a person actually is?”

If you've ever wondered whether you're socially awkward, overly sensitive, chronically anxious, or simply surrounded by people who have collectively agreed to pretend this is normal...

Yeah.

This one's for you.

If you're ready to go a little deeper than laughing at the chaos, take our free assessment:

Are You Healing or Just Surviving?

It'll help you identify where you may be getting stuck, whether that's people-pleasing, self-trust, emotional safety, boundaries, hypervigilance, or feeling like you have to hold everything together.

Keep Listening

If this episode made you laugh, cringe, or question our entire social construct, keep the binge going:

→ Episode 21: You're Not a Bad Friend, You're Emotionally Exhausted - How to Spot Emotional Dumping
Keep going if you've ever wondered why certain friendships leave you completely emotionally exhausted.

→ Episode 15: “You’re Not Setting Boundaries - You’re Testing People”
For the people-pleasing, boundary-setting, and “why did I do that?” side of things.

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