These are tropes that have to deal with nervousness and anxiety. Check out these tropes already, because your staring at me is making me nervous.
Psychology Tropes, Fear Tropes, Shyness Tropes, Tropes to Cope and Tropes of Awkwardness are closely related; expect a lot of overlap.
- Afraid to Hold the Baby: Someone is anxious about holding a baby because something might go wrong.
- Anxiety Dreams: Dreaming about things you're worrying about.
- Appearance Angst
- Bullied into Depression: Being bullied makes someone depressed because they're worrying when their bully will strike next.
- Cathartic Chores: Cleaning to deal with anxiety.
- Cigarette of Anxiety: Having a smoke to calm yourself.
- Commitment Anxiety
- Commitment Issues: A character feels anxious about committing to a long-term relationship.
- Distressed Woodchopping: Chopping wood to deal with anxiety.
- Eyes Always Averted: People who are shy often don't like to make eye contact.
- Freak Out: A person experiences something so traumatic they completely lose it (either temporarily or permanently).
- Hollywood Psych
- Hyperventilation Bag
- Identity Breakdown: Being so uncertain of who or what you are leading to a complete mental break.
- Moving Angst: Having worries over moving to a new environment.
- Nervous Tics: Habits that characters unconsciously do when anxious or scared.
- Nervous Wreck: Someone who is constantly worrying and panicking.
- Neverending Terror
- "Not Wearing Pants" Dream
- Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat
- Performance Anxiety
- Prone to Tears: Characters who are anxious a lot may also cry a lot as a result.
- Repression Never Ends Well: Characters who hide things build up anxiety until it comes out messily.
- Shrinking Violet: A character is extremely shy and introverted, often due to anxiety.
- Socially Awkward Hero: The hero is a good-hearted person but also has social anxiety.
- Stress Vomit: Someone gets so anxious they throw up.
- Worrying for the Wrong Reason: One character expresses some concern about a situation, and then another corrects them with a new concern.
- You Had Us Worried There
