Just a quick question
As someone who doesn’t have anxiety and has an ego big enough to fill a room I find it shocking how many people are too scared to group up
So report in so I know what I’m dealin with here
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I have PTSD and anxiety, but not in dungeons. But I wont touch Mythic plus cause of the timers.
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Literally everybody experiences anxiety at one point or another. Some do more often than others and some are better equipped to deal with it than others.
So to answer your question… almost literally everyone.
Now, I of course assume you mean regular social anxiety… I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a pretty big number. I had pretty bad social anxiety when I was a teenager.
Not anymore though. I’m not really sure what changed but it just went away over time. 
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I have anxiety, but I’m not scared to group up. My social responses are fairly pre-programmed and a bit awkward, though. The more anonymous I am, the easier it is for me to interact with people.
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I have generalized panic disorder, but it’s not related to social stuff. It just randomly likes to torture me.
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as someone who suffers from both extreme social anxiety and depression, from my end at least, it’s more just not wanting to run with people. We’re not scared, we don’t want to socialize. I play this game largely in part because I try to force myself to be social for my own good. There are millions who suffer from anxiety out there, and few would say it’s fear over being anti-social.
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Nah I wont talk crap but that wont work for me cause of the reason for my anxiety being bipolar and ptsd. Some people might say that to you cause it doesnt work for everyone.
i knew a guy who kept insisting I could cure myself with exercise. And Im at my computer a jumbled mess like thats not going to work cause I exercise all the time hehe.
Millenials suffer from more anxiety than their previous generations, while a lot of WoW players are millenials.
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Wait am i a millenial?
OH GOSH DANG!
I love this post.
Wish I could give multiple likes.
i’m too old to pretend having issues i have no official diagnosis for. But i can’t use voice chats and prefer text.
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I am the same way, I have alot of time pressure issues and a whole rainbow of other anxiety disorders but being pushed I can do some of it. I hated every second of getting mage tower appearances since It put you to alot of mythic grinding and raiding to get the gear to do the encounters but I did it… and was miserable. Glad I did for the appearances but I only group up as a last resort, and usually I make sure to lead pug raids and mythics so I can at least be assured I won’t be kicked. Nothing worse than the feeling you get when the group UI suddenly dissapears and you are rejected for whatever reason mid-run.
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Yea I had a hard time with mage tower and unlocking heroics in WoD. Timers get under my skin. Im glad this cloak ordeal will let you take friends in cause otherwise Id just skip it 
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I don’t have any problem grouping up, but if anyone asks me to go Discord and talk/call things…i just instantly get out of the group or just close the game and wait a bit so when i log back they would prob kicked me…and the best of all: for no reason at all! I just suddenly feel bad and kinda scared of talking with random people. That’s why i just usually enter the voice chat without a mic and say that i don’t have any left xD
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Pretty much the same deal, dungeons are just dungeons. Toxic players and rushrushgogogo content with complete strangers just isn’t fun; you don’t even get time to talk to them as that would slow down the run slightly, and if you did they’d probably just tell you to f’k off. XD
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I don’t suffer from (social) anxiety on the Internet, just in certain real life social situations.
The issue I have with the current WoW community is the level of toxicity it reeks of. I don’t need rude borderline people in my life - the reason I play is precisely to avoid this kind of behavior that most of us sadly have to deal with on almost a daily basis. That’s why I’m reluctant to join any pugs other than LFG/LFR.
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My RL anxiety doesn’t follow me in video games because of the anonymous nature of it all, I’m more talkative (type chat) in games than I am in person, I’m a bigger a-hole, and don’t let group stuff bother me. People can say whatever they want, it doesn’t affect me because its a game.
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All my life. I was a shy kid and that evolved into an anxiety disorder as I got older. LFD and LFR were a godsend to me, I’d never stepped into a dungeon or raid I couldn’t solo until those systems were added. And the only time I touch the LFG panel is for world bosses because it’s not really any different than using LFR.
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This. My anxiety has nothing to do with WoW. I had cancer and every time I stubbed my toe I worry that it’s back. Anyways, I can group with people just fine.
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As someone who has bad anxiety who has had panic attacks, I don’t mind grouping up.
Oddly enough, keys and raids I am fine because we are talking about a goal and how to achieve it. It’s the small talk about nothing in particular is what gives me anxiety.
Throw me in a key with some randoms in discord I am fine. Put me in a raid with guildies I am fine. Put me in discord with s few guildies just chatting is when I get anxiety lol