Anxious All-star Pillows

Fear of news.

Man in Therapist office sees a sign: Therapy Is Expensive Bubble Wrap Is Cheap You Decide

"I just learned that my golden parachute was not properly packed."

'It's your babysitter, where do you keep your fire extinguisher?'

'I checked my symptoms on the internet and I think I might be dead!'

"And, of course, if I were to get the job and start feeling comfortable here I'd no longer need the security blanket."

'Your performance review is next Tuesday. You're allowed to bring a guitar and up to three backup singers.'

'No, you haven't missed much. Pretty well everyone called in sick.'

'I'm sorry, but I haven't understood a word you've babbled since I turned left on red.'

Before her first dressage competition, Kate suffered from Pre-Traumatic Stress.

'Please give me the strength to ask for a raise without my voice breaking into an annoying falsetto and my brow all sweaty.'

"Oh no, I never replied to Theresa's email! And tomorrow I must call Steve.... What does Yara think of me?"

Tree growing

"I've been getting the most intense workouts since I taped a picture of my ex on the heavy bag!"

The only way I can get through a nudist convention.

Agoraphobic Explorer

"They're from accounting, sir, they're not very verbal."

"My life is a powerful blast tocenter field easily snagged on the warning track."

The Job Interview

"Is it okay that I said yes to that costume party?"

'You're in extreme danger because you eat too much. . .'

Fortune Telling: Retirement Planning.

"Feel free to imagine you might have any of the conditions you read about in the magazines."

'Play among yourselves while I deal with my stage fright.'

"If you don't wish to hear the match result look away now."

"Just get out there and be yourself – or better yet, someone like me."

'She will not call on me, she will not call on me, she. . .'

"Did we switch everything off before we left?"

Person is hiding behind book entitled 'Coping with shyness'.

Idlewild.

"Call me a dreamer, but I see a world in which I give speeches without pants and find myself in the final exam of courses I never signed up for."

'What if I want to stop? Where's the pause button?'

"The virus can live on cardboard! Plus, I miss fishing."

"Anyway, all you'll need to worry about soon is which direction the wind is blowing."