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Default Nov 13, 2017 at 05:28 AM
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Originally Posted by NaomiQuinn View Post
So i just joined this site and wanted to tell people how extreme this disorder is regarding how much it impacts my life.
So i was not a very social person as a young child. I normally hung out by myself a little ways from everyone else but i could still normally interact and socialize if i wanted to. If someone were to come up to me and decide to socialize i would be ok with that. It got worse the older i got. Now i am in my late teens in college and i do not go out at all besides work and school (although sometimes i skip). I just cannot fathom going out and seeing all those people because i always think they are looking and judging me for every little thing i do whether its the color of my shoes or the way i style my hair. Now i get panic attacks because of things like presentations or even something as small as attending the class itself because i don’t want to see all of those people. People make me nervous, panicked, anxious, terrified because they’re just so unpredictable. How do i know if they will like me? How do i know if i can trust them enough to talk to them? How do i know that they aren’t silently judging everything about me?
I've also had problems connecting with people (and in some ways, still have). What I advise you is join a support or self-help group with people in a similar situation. What really helped me was being in a group of people knowing that they had problems too and I didn't need to be "ashamed" for mine. That's what hinders me personally most in social contact, the constant fear of being inferior and less stable than others and others somehow "discovering" that.

There's this group called "Emotions Anonymous" for people recovering from mental and emotional illness. It was recommended to me by other people and my therapist because you can be in an anonymous setting with compassionate people there.

Emotions Anonymous

Hope you'll feel better soon.
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