Since social anxiety tends to go hand-in-hand with self-consciousness, seeing yourself on-screen during meetings may be especially anxiety inducing. If you already live with an anxiety disorder - particularly social anxiety disorder - you might find that virtual meetings intensify your symptoms. Other video chat tools like Google Hangouts and Skype are having this same effect.
Zoom anxiety overlaps with what researchers call Zoom fatigue - a strong sense of post-meeting exhaustion. Even as we return to business-as-usual, “normal” for many workplaces may involve more virtual meetings. Since COVID-19 protocols disrupted the usual flow of many workplaces, video conferencing has become a popular form of professional communication.
Most of us can relate to the experience of beginning a lengthy response, only to realize that people have been waving you down because you’ve been on mute the whole time. Now we have another collection of meeting-related worries: “Do I look directly into the camera or at their faces? Is my backdrop OK? Can they hear my dog scratching at the door? Are they even listening, or are they checking emails?” If that isn’t stressful enough, a virtually brand-new source of anxiety rose out of the COVID-19 pandemic: Zoom anxiety. And when we finally do talk, what should we say and how should we say it? Many of us wonder when we should listen and when we should talk. In-person meetings can be anxiety-inducing enough. Share on Pinterest 10’000 Hours/Getty Images
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