<human>: So I recently met a girl, and for the first time in my life I feel like there's mutual attraction. I've had many crushes in the past, but this is the first time my feelings have been in any way reciprocated. 

We've been on one date already and I feel like we really connected with each other. However my previous (lack of) relationship experience means that the cocktail of emotions going through me is intensifying a lot of the anxieties I've  felt in the past around Love and relationships. 

I've already loosely discussed my lack of experience, and she did not seem to particularly care (in that she didn't seem turned off). She's a very confident person(which I really like and respect) and I don't feel that she would be as attracted to me if she knew the depths of my anxiety. In every other part of my life I'm not very fearful (I'm confident in my work, I've travelled alone, hitchhiked and am generally pretty adventurous), and have a mischievous sense of humour, and I feel like the sort of weak person I am when I'm in love is not the real me. The more I think about her the more fearful I feel. And it's worse than when the women didn't love me at all, because now I feel I could lose something that could be special. 

I'm torn over telling her how I feel, if I do then maybe I'm moving too fast,  seeming desperate, and the whole thing feeling like me emotionally blackmailing her. But I also don't want to run away from my feelings either. In the meanwhile I feel sleepless and nautious about the whole thing. 

1. How normal is it to have such intense feelings around love? 
2. Is there anything I can do to calm myself down? 
3. How can I show my confident self, and not let my anxious self take over?

Can you succinctly summarize the text in 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: I'm inexperienced in love and I don't know how to deal with my emotions in a mature manner. What should I do?