OK...sounds weird, I know. I honestly don’t know if this belongs in r/anxiety or maybe some grief sub-reddit, but I’m hoping I find help here. I had a really, really close friend who was my “person,” and we both kinda dealt with a lot of social anxiety. We were like each other’s anchors. We did everything together and went everywhere together and two anxious people together made for a fun time with no anxiety rather than double—our presence helped each other feel at ease and less alone.

Are you ever in a store or maybe a crowded place or something and a bad anxious habit is to go on your phone and pretend to look at things? Our coping strategy was to do text each other through stuff. She might be on the toilet and I’m texting her saying everything I’m doing or whatever and then maybe “sry I’m anxious af and telling u helps bc i feel like i’m doing something lol.”

Well, I can’t really do that with other people because I think my friends are too nice to tell me they’re annoyed (lol there’s anxiety again), but I also don’t want to be so needy and bothersome anyway. Also, my friend died, and I do message her responseless Snapchat (her number is someone else’s now), but I know I’m talking to myself and I would never get a reply.

Is there such thing as some app that you can kinda send messages to and it could respond with random phrases or just, “OK, sounds great! :)” or something? As you can see, I’m shit at explaining what I’m trying to find, so it’s hard to search for this. I also didn’t really want to bother a real person about it, i.e. a counselor. I guess like an interactive or responsive diary???

Thanks!