Hi! This is my first post and I just wanted to introduce myself and see if you all could help me out. I'm Fletch(one of my all time favorite movie characters).
What I am hoping you can help me with is pushing me to see a therapist/doctor/professional. I've done my internet research and am fairly convinced that I have a nice little case of social phobia. It's affected my social life for some time now. I haven't even so much as sniffed a relationship in years and when presented with the opportunity to make new friends I tend to find the exit door pretty fast.
I've been able to live with this(though I don't think I should be accepting it so easily) What really scares me now is the way it affects my performance at work. At work I have to maintain relationships with client companies. I can accomplish this 99.9% of the time with email. But when one of my bosses tells me I need to call a client and take care of an issue immediately it tends to go like this: 1.go outside and smoke a cigarette 2. talk to the girl in the cube next to me for a little while 3. do a few laps around the office 4. sit and wait for the people in the cubes around me to leave so that no one will hear me. Sometimes I even wait until after business hours knowing that everyone will be gone and I'll likely get a voicemail where I can leave a message. I know I'm being ridiculous but I do it anyway. I have to stop this because eventually I will lose my job. This is just one example of things that have been going on lately.
Sorry for such along message. Please push me to go talk to someone. It's not going to be easy for me and I need a little push to get started. Thanks and I hope you all had a great turkey day.