i think i have social anxiety disorder. please read?
April 25th, 2010
La Fille de Salade asked:
what should i do? i believe i have it… i check with all the symptoms. how do i cure it? do i talk to someone? how do i tell my mom that i might have it? although, she’s probably already guessed it after all those times i’ve made her answer the phone and cover for me when i don’t want to hang out with my ‘friends’.
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what should i do? i believe i have it… i check with all the symptoms. how do i cure it? do i talk to someone? how do i tell my mom that i might have it? although, she’s probably already guessed it after all those times i’ve made her answer the phone and cover for me when i don’t want to hang out with my ‘friends’.
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Categories: Mental Health | Tags: Answer The Phone, Mom, Social Anxiety Disorder
Cody
Without going into detail…I can relate to almost everything you mention in regard to your shyness and social anxiety. As a child I was always extremely shy. As an adult I am still extremely shy. Untreated shyness can lead to social anxiety disorder and mental depression.
Your shyness reactions can occur at any or all of the following levels: mental, emotional, physical, or behavioral. That means that you could experience one or two of the behavioral reactions and none of the others. Extreme shyness it is the third largest of the mental disorders, after only depression and alcoholism.
Undiagnosed Social Phobia causes untold suffering and millions of lives in self-imposed chains. At some point along that line — and that point varies by the individual — simple shyness turns into Social Phobia, Anxiety, Depression, Social Isolation.
Your life is dictated by the need to either avoid certain situations or endure them with extreme anxiety. I can’t really express my experience with my friends and family because they simply cannot understand what it is like to live with shyness, and fear every day, with anxiety that has no logical or easily explainable root. It will be hard to do this for shy people like you and me. But remember, people want friends just as much as you do. They want to feel important. So if you can do that, just smile, ask questions, compliment, walk each other to class, they’ll be your friend.
Let go of the assumption you’re incapable of being social, or not socially acceptable. It is absolutely not true, it will take time, but you are able to be confident and be yourself.
If you find that your shyness is beginning to present problems in your life, you may want to seek some help for it.
Look at it as being the same as taking a self-improvement course at your local college, or going to a self-help seminar. Help for your shyness can often be done in only a few sessions and will last for a lifetime, so don’t deny yourself something that can make a big improvement in your quality of life!
One of the reasons for participating to Yahoo! Answers were to be able to express what I have learned about shyness, social phobia, anxiety, and depression. how it doesn’t make sense, how it ambushes you, how it hides from explanation, how it actually feels. Maybe something I say will help somebody to understand it better.
That’s my hope, anyway. Hope it helps you.
James
Ok i have this problem to. This is what i did…
Ive always been nervous and hated going out to shops. hanging with friends, anything social. I only realised myself i had a problem about a year ago when i started college and completely freaked out and walked 5miles back home, i later left college.
I just sat next to my mom and said ‘i think i have a social problem’ she already kind of knew this to. It was pretty awkward telling my mom this but i knew i had to tell her.
We then went to the doctors and he referred me to counsellor with who im still with.
I hope i helped you understand maybe what you should do.
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well, you more than likely do have social anxiety disorder, and talking to someone just might help, and you dont have to spend a becoupe of money for a shrenk or therapist as there are plenty of numbers you can get on the enternet that will direct you to a free hotline, and if anyone suggests medicine look at them like there stupid and run the other way, because you and most every other american suffers from social anxiety as well and its not worth sacrificing a kidney over or induring some other ridiculus side affect, further more our bodies are quite miraculous for the simpl fact that they can warn us when something is wrong or not right, and what we consider to be anxieties about certain people or places, could be our bodies way of telling us to think twice, esspecialy now a days, people are a bit more off than they use to be. so hope that helps
Tawnya
I have a social Anxiety disorder too. im 14 and I have had this Sense i was like 6 or 7 so its been a while. I no alot about im also obsessive compulsive and I have post tramatic stress disorder, It all started with ptsd, and it kept leading to more anxiety’s. I just started taking medicine (prozac) about 5 months ago. Most ways to cure anxiety is with medicine it isn’t like a drug it dosent make you feel like your high so you don’t have to worry about that. There are many different things you can do to cure it. Medicine being one- but also facing your fears.
Its good that you noticed it but talk this over with your mom and dad. Because it is a problem maybe you don’t even have this. They probably will take you to a doctor or a therapist. Make sure you don’t lie about anything, and tell the person you are going to everything you are feeling.
A way to tell your mom is maybe write her a note if you don’t want to talk about it. I always write my parents notes because I don’t like confronting people. Or just make an excuse to go to the doctor and talk about this with a doctor. Or just sit her down and say I think I have a problem we need to look into.
Trust me this is a common thing nothing to be embarrassed by.
Hope this helped.
James
I have that. I just hang out on the computer and pretend I’m a fat hairy man, instead of talking to my real friends.
It doesn’t help that my closest real friend is a Y!A member, either.
Bill
You may have OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
You may have OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
You may have OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
You may have OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
You may have OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder