New Job Anxiety: Struggling to Socialize and Perform Well

Oh my yes. Everytime. Depending on the people I worked with it would get better or worse. In one job, I made friends eventually and the following 2 years I worked there I became outgoing and an extrovert, at least with those people, but it spread out to the patients and visitors and customers as well. Though there were still come coworkers I never really got comfortable with and my anxiety would spike around them a little, having the friends I'd made and experiences to fall back on over the months made them tolerable at worst. Anytime I am in a new position I think back to how that one worked out and it gives me hope and a little peace of mind to calm me down. Just saw your next comment pop up while writing this. I will say that having my direct supervisor on the same medications definitely had a huge impact in a positive way. I was honest from the get go and she was extremely supportive and understanding. There were days I would call in and talk to her about having troubles convincing myself to come to work and if the situation allowed, she'd let me come in late or even call off for the day. Just knowing I had that made it so much easier. Keep a positive outlook and put one foot in front of there other. New day means new opportunities for something to go well lol.

Also, I'm not on medication, I have an appointment with a new psychiatrist but she wasn't able to fit me into her schedule until the second week of June :( I had to reschedule my original appointment with her because my job start date got moved to the same day, which was super disappointing. Of course they would want me to start on the same day lol 🙃