Originally Posted by
alankay
You were spontaneous and had no time for anticipatory anxiety to develop. There was not enough time for you to worry and create scenarios, you just saw the little child for what she was(a non judgemental child) just waving so without any thought(which is appropriate) just waved back. Only right afterward to you THINK much about it. Sure, I used to get that sort of thing. Not so much with kids but you get better as you get help. An ssri also helped my be less self conscious and worry/ruminate less about these thing which helps allot. That's whats lending to these feeling. Worrying/thinking about negative scenarios and how other may see you, which leads to more worry and you start going down that road of self perpetuating negative thoughts particularly when there's time for you to worry before hand and make it all worse.