When I make a new friend online and we hang out a lot in a short space of time, I find myself hyperfocusing on wanting to interact with them. I try my best to hold myself back to what would be an acceptable level. It gets to a point where I feel like almost nothing else matters but their next response.
Does anyone else have this? If so, is there a coping technique I can do to reduce it or make it more bearable?
Yes and unfortunately I’ve come on too strong multiple times in spite of my best efforts to try and mitigate it… I wish I knew what to do differently. I’ve also just tried to stay detached but then people lose interest! It feels kind of random when people even have any interest in me in the first place. Like…I can’t discern what I did correctly.
I guess all you can do is practice right? Keep failing over and over until you don’t anymore.