davestriderinthighhighs:

Let me tell you, if you are ever with a person who has anxiety, and they ask you to order their food for them, or stand next to them when they buy something, or reassure them countless times exactly the time and place where you will be meeting them at, DO NOT ROLL YOUR EYES, DO NOT SIGH IN EXASPERATION, AND DO NOT TELL THEM TO STOP BEING SO SILLY. Sometimes its hard to do simple things like that, and when people help us out, it means the world to us.

Additionally, forcing someone with anxiety to do things on their own will NOT “teach them that it’s okay” or anything like that. What it will teach them is that on top of already being scared, the people that they trust will reject and abandon them if they ask for help.