FFXIV: Top Five Things That Cause Anxiety
Posted on June 26, 2026 by Aywren
Social anxiety is a fear response to a specific situation you're anticipating, often triggered by past experiences or trauma.
Basically, your brain is trying to protect you by emoting danger bongos, which fire up your body’s fight or flight response system.
While games with online interactions can’t actually hurt us in real life, some players can still experience anxiety when social triggers cause the brain to sound those danger bongos.
In talking with other players, I’ve learned these are five common situations in FFXIV that can cause social anxiety. Let’s look at each one, and I’ll rate them on a danger bongo scale based on how scary they are to me personally.
Your ratings may vary to mine, however! I’d love to hear yours in the video comments!
If you found this video helpful or interesting, please consider subscribing to my YouTube channel for more like it! I'm working on a series videos that address how to tackle some of these fears! One on roleplay - which was the one highlighted most in this video's comments by others - will release tomorrow, in fact!