If you like someone, you want them to like you, too. The shyness and anxiety represents two separate but related emotional influences: 1) that they are watching how you react to them, and 2) that they are worried that they will do something to cause you to not like them, or to disapprove, or to sour your relationship.
Maybe because they're anxious and tense
"Is worried" is the present tense form of the verb "worry," used when describing someone's current state of being anxious or concerned. "Worried" is the past tense and past participle form of the verb, used to indicate that someone was anxious or concerned in the past.
Being anxious or tense
A homophone for anxious is "envious." Both words sound the same when spoken but have different meanings.
Stressed, wary, anxious, edgy,
The idiom "bundle of nerves" means that someone is very nervous or anxious. It describes a person who is feeling very tense or agitated.
tense and anxious
anxious, fearful, fretful, afraid, fidgety, agitated, bothered, worried, apprehensive, concerned, distressed, excitable, edgy, flustered, fitful, jittery, shy, skittish, shaky, spooked, taut, tense, timid, timorous, troubled, twitchy, uneasy, unrestful, unstrung, upset, uptight, volatile, weak, wired.
The past progressive tense of "feel" is "was feeling" or "were feeling," depending on the subject pronoun. For example, "I was feeling happy" or "They were feeling anxious."
Eager means have a great desire for something, while anxious means worried or tense. An example of a sentence using both words would be... He was eager to know the exam results but anxious incase he had failed.
Some antonyms (opposite words) of relaxed include anxious, worried, uptight, and tense.
Troubled can be a verb and an adjective. Verb: The past tense of the verb 'trouble'. Adjective: Anxious or worried.