What is the fear of making phone calls? How to deal with the fear of making phone calls

Many people may have encountered this situation in their lives. When the phone rings, they will feel particularly anxious and irritable, and don't want to answer the phone. In daily life, they also hate making calls. They have to prepare their words for a long time before making a call. In the final analysis, being afraid of making or answering the phone is actually not good at socializing. Let's see what to do when you encounter this situation!

What is the psychology of being afraid of making phone calls?

Incoming call syndrome. When your phone rings, you may have a stress response and become very anxious and irritable. You may be afraid to answer the phone and hate making calls. If you have to call someone, you will keep the conversation short and try to avoid chatting.

In fact, there is no need to be anxious. You can pretend to have another self when you are alone, talk to yourself more, and devote yourself to accepting your less perfect self. Slowly you will find that answering a phone call is not that difficult.

If you want to communicate with the outside world, you should first get along well with yourself. When your inner world no longer rejects some unknown things, you will gradually accept some new challenges, even if it is just a strange call.

How to deal with fear of making phone calls

My approach is that if something needs to be explained in writing and it is not extremely urgent, I usually use WeChat. Don’t use voice. Text is more intuitive. Try to make the text as logical as possible so that people can understand and communicate through text.

I remember that every time my boss called me, I would answer the phone within three seconds. I was very nervous and scared. I would give myself a three-second deep breath to buffer the call so as not to make the other party feel too abrupt. Then I would also have time to buffer and organize my words.

In the final analysis, being afraid to make or receive phone calls is actually a sign of not being good at socializing. You should be brave enough to communicate and break through yourself! Only by slowly changing your fear can you fundamentally solve the problem.

Summary: Try to avoid unnecessary calls, make necessary calls carefully, and overcome social phobia.

Is being afraid of making phone calls a mental illness?

Being afraid to talk to people on the phone is actually more like a social disorder: worrying that others will see you in a strange way.

Some people who have just entered the workplace are particularly prone to this kind of anxiety. When they encounter a negative tone from others or after hanging up the phone, they will feel deeply negative about themselves.

People who are in close relationships sometimes fear that their words will be misunderstood by the other party, and always feel that no matter what they do, they will not achieve the results they expect.

Communication is the most powerful means to influence people, and those who are afraid of interactive communication and anxious about the results of getting along will only prove that they are not recognized, and then fall into a negative cycle.

Why are you afraid to make phone calls?

It may not be the phone itself that we are afraid of.

Maybe it's some failed phone call experience that has made you so afraid to make phone calls, such as being broken up with, criticized, or fired over the phone; or there was a period of time when you made a lot of phone calls, and this happened to be a very stressful time in your life.

So fear does not come from the phone, but from interpersonal communication. Fear and the phone have established a wrong connection, and then we have been taking an avoidant approach. Maybe we are more afraid of failure, pressure, and rejection, rather than making a phone call itself.