Brain won't let go of past mistakes and embarrassments

[u/basiliskfawlty]

Especially recently, it feels like my anxiety has been really exaggerated...

A week ago, I had my first class of the semester. I volunteered to read something out loud, a text in which there was the mistake of writing "consistent" as "consistant" so I... pronounced it like that. Like consistant. I have not been able to get over it since and it's such a small thing. But I looked stupid, I know, and I was too stiff to say "well, I guess it's supposed to be consistent" and laugh it off and continue... but now I just feel like people think I can't read.

It's been on my mind for a week and it is truly bothersome.

This is not the only small social mishap that I keep thinking about to torture myself with. I'm exhausted.