get over my fear of phones

I’m terrified of the phone. When ANYONE calls or I have to make a call my heart races, I get super nervous and sweaty, and I cough a lot (I cough when I’m nervous, I don’t know why). Sometimes I even have panic attacks! I don’t know why either. I’m a teenager. I’m always told I should like talking on the phone, but I hate it! It’s terrible.

Im currently working in an office. But I only have 15 days left…as I cannot call clients to make them buy. I’am not used in chasing people, more less by phone.
Im kinda happy when they said that I have to go. I wasn’t really comfortable in my job. I have been working in the office for 6 months…and no improvement regarding the phone…
But I hope one day I can get over this fear and return to work in an office.

I can answer phones…but I can’t for the life of me call anyone except my house. Thank God for texting.

I cannot make any telephone calls as I HATE talking to someone I don’t know on the phone, I even hate calling distant relatives. I need to make several phone calls at the moment, one to find out about studying a course, and one to check my hotel bookings, and to extend it. I’m always terrified I don’t know what to say, and always worry the person on the other end is going to think I’m stupid. My mum usually makes the phonecalls for me (I’m 19!) but even she’s said she’s not doing it anymore, because I need to learn how to do it myself.

I am only a teenager and this fear really affects my social life. I don’t mind the actually talking but I cannot dial a number. The rare time that I do I freeze when the person says hello. I sit there frozen until they hang up. I had no idea other people had this problem. Glad to know I’m not alone.

I’ve recently started a new job in an office and my supervisor tries to get me to phone folk all the time!! I do absolutely eveything I can to get out of it, like sending emails instead. I’d rather get into trouble for not getting something done than phone someone! I can phone friends and family no bother. But on a mobile not a landline!!! With a mobile your prety much guarenteed that the person ur phoning is going to be the one who answers and they know it’s u who is calling roo. I HATE phoning people I don’t know. It makes me have a toltal panic attack and sneak off into the toilets to calm down afterwards!! It’s the bain of my life!!!

I definately didnt know other poele had this problem!!! My heart gets soo loud and fast and my voice stutters and usually i hang up. For some reason text messaging doesnt bother me…because i know the person can text back when they have time…thats my worst fear..bothering people, calling at the wrong time, not knowing if they find me annoying….

For me, I was afraid of what would happen if I called people, like annoying them, calling at tha bad time, wrong numbers, having someone else pick up the phone, and either A)having to ask for them B)getting nervous and hanging up C)saying something wrong or D)confusing them witht he person I was trying to get a hold of.
After a while I would put off calling people, and would cancel plans because of it. But it helped to have someone else dial the phone, wait until it started to ring, and then give it to me, which in a way placed on me an obligation to wait until someone answered on the other side. Pacing actually helped, and many other things. I just took it step by step.

Weirdly enough, I can use mobile phones with no problem, it’s just landlines that get to me. I can rarely pick them up, and I definitely can NEVER actually dial a number. It can be very irritating, and it would be very useful to get over it.

im still not that fone of them but having to use one at work both at my current job and my old job in college (toysrus, baby!) i had to use a phone.. and in TRU, I had to use the PA system too!!! i think that’s what helped crack me out of my phone anxiety shell.