Does anyone suffer with social anxiety?

[Grinner84]

Social anxiety.

[Hidden]

I do. It's difficult to maintain eye contact with people, my chest tightens when I'm in groups and I become claustrophobic and feel the urge to run to escape the embarrassment of turning red, stuttering, etc.

[Grinner84 in reply to Hidden]

Ok i suffer with similar symptoms as well. I suffer more when being out in public where i will feel paranoid.

[Hidden in reply to Grinner84]

I always feel paranoid. There's really nothing I can do about it, but I feel it helps because I become super protective of my family and friends.

[PuppyReader in reply to Hidden]

I get paranoid that people are talking about me behind my back or making fun of me. Because of this I don’t make the effort to connect with people so I end up alienating myself and making it worse. It’s something I am working on be reminding myself that I am not the only person involved in my head (I don’t know if that makes sense). They have stuff going on for them that’s more important then thinking about me.

[Sunnidayz1]

I do🙋‍♀️

Not fun. I get nervous sometimes when I have to go anywhere with people.

It's gotten better w therapy. Im also on medication. Looking to rid myself of the anxiety and the meds. It tooka lot of work but Im getting there

[Angry101]

I do Grinner, I hate to be in a social situation. I have literally stayed in my house for 5 years. I do go out on Wednesday and Sunday. That’s when I get to church. Otherwise I’m a homebody. I don’t like chaos, I don’t loud conversation. How do you deal with it?

[Grinner84 in reply to Angry101]

I stay by myself a lot. I can stay in bed all day putting things off until the last minute.

[Angry101 in reply to Grinner84]

Me too, I’ve got a ton of stuff to do,but I can’t get to them. It’s like a never ending circle.

[Tiggerakafidgity]

I suffer from paranoid personality disorder.

I used to have diarrhoea and be sick shaking on the side of my bed when I had it bad.thats not even going out.

I’m on tablets now and I feel bloody great.going in to a pub is hard work and can usually do 2 hrs then that’s me done.

Meditation helps a lot as it helps you think about nice stuff instead of the situation.

Christ I’ve worked on my self so hard and it’s paying of but it’s always there in the background wanting to bite my brain in half.

[Grinner84 in reply to Tiggerakafidgity]

I will take your tips on medication.

[PuppyReader]

Sometime I get so in my head that people don’t want to see me or every little thing people do gets under my skin that I have locked myself in my apartment. When it gets really bad it triggers other issues I have and it all spirals. My advice is to have a designated person (someone you trust and talk to often) to alert when this starts or the negative thinking starts so they can watch to make sure you are ok. My sister does it for me and I do this for her, but make sure they can handle this without cause issues for themselves.

[Tiggerakafidgity]

I used to find when paranoia was working its worst on my brain nothing but nothing would help.i found talking just didn’t help as my brain would snow ball to such an extent I couldn’t get the words out clearly enough.

I tell you when waking up every day and going to bed every day and being paranoid that some one is gonna actually kidnap or kill you in between is not a nice place at all to be in.

it’s like your brain is Iocked in like a bloody missile.i had hypnotherapy the whole bloody lot.

Even meditation after practicing for over 5 yrs didn’t get half of it.

I’m not saying it won’t help others.

Please try it for your self I can and will work fur ppl.

After 20 yrs I managed to get put on an antipsychotic tablet and with in that day wow it made such a difference but was not there totally.

Any way long story short after 3 different tries I found the ultimate antipsychotic tablet which is the older gen 1 type which has no adverse effects and has now helped me come of my anti depressants.its only been 4 weeks of anti depressants but has helped calm my heart problem down a little.

There is HOPE,you’ve to do a lot of home work and work on your self.

It’s not the magic tablet for every one but this has actually raised my happiness a little in more ways then one.

I hope every one finds this with a little inspiration.with help and little helpful stories from others we can help each other

🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[ChampagneSparkles1]

I struggle with it everyday. But my job requires me to be face to face with people & I help them with things. Focusing on them & their needs helps me to take the focus off of me. I try to keep a smile on my face too. That automatically makes you happy. Try it! I wish you the best. Social anxiety is the hardest thing to deal with. Keep your thoughts positive.