[badseed]

I mucked up yet another very important appointment because I couldn't hang with how many people were in the waiting room.
When I walked in, I saw a full waiting room and everyone was looking at me.
My anxiety went through the roof, so turned around and walked out knowing full well it was going to be a costly mistake.
Did my anxiety care that that was my only chance appointment, and now I'm screwed?
NO.
Does my anxiety take the backseat so that I may do simple things like sit in a waiting room with other people??
NOPE!
I even tried to explain to someone once that I couldn't do group counseling, because my anxiety would not allow me to:
1. walk in
2. sit through or
3. Participate
His response was "well then group will be good for you"
Hello? Its not an excuse to try to get out of doing something jerk!
Its very real and stronger than my fear of the consequences.
Everybody just thinks it's an excuse or a cop out.
It's so frustrating!
Nobody understands.

[shortandcute]

Oh, I know what you mean! I have cancelled, or not showed up, to doctor appointments for the same reason. Sometimes it was because of my depression. It's also been difficult for me to do stuff with my family because of my anxiety; my family always took it as me just not wanting to be around them. My sister in law has difficulty doing a lot of family get together type stuff, too--but I'm not sure if anxiety plays inot it or not; she does have some physical issues going --but you wouldn't know just by looking at her; so a lot of times, she caved in to my family's pressure to hang out. But she finally had to put her foot down (kindly, tho) and they backed off. They started backing off on me around that same time, too.

[redbandit]

Thats tough. It is very hard to get other people to understand. Whether its missing a drs appt or a friends bday party, those things happen to me all the time. I feel like a flake