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Originally Posted by hvert
Even if anxiety is not quite the right word to describe it, I think you will find other people with similar feelings in the anxiety forum. I don't have any physical issues either and public speaking doesn't phase me, but sometimes group events where I may encounter a lot of strangers, like parties, make me uncomfortable.
For me, repetitively going to these sorts of events and interacting with people even when I don't want to has made it easier to do. I still don't like doing it, but it is easier. It sounds like you have tried this but it is not making a difference? What would happen if you made yourself go into that room during break and greet a person? What if you did it twice a week for a month? Have you tried that already?
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I tried to go there and greeting (the students room) just a few times. It is so painfull. And even I do that the big 'they don't want me to be here is bigger than me, it crushes me. It's awfull. I AM there and I am thinking about what they are thinking about me being therethere. And as I don't say to much it becomes heavier, and if I say something it turns also heavier like 'what is this stranger doing here and trying to be nice and hung up with us, when she has this and that personality, we don't like her that much, and she doesn't even belong to our group...'
Awfull, just the thought of it... I try to escape as sooner as I can. I feel ashamed imagining that then they start thinking about how odd I am, because I left, and so they have onde more reason to not want me around.
So in the end I promise myself to not go back inside sooner. Just quit about the idea.
That's it.