Social Anxiety/Phobia???

[LadySimone]

I've dealt with it. It was pretty bad a few months ago. The summers are the worst season for me because it's a time when everyone is out but I hate the summer for that very reason. Because I ride the bus I always think people are looking at me and talking shyt. It was really bad a few months ago. I can't emphasise that enough.

I generally don't make eye contact with the public.

 

[Krazy]

subs for later

 

[Black Cac]

Nothing wrong with not wanting to be around a bunch of people.

 

[USSInsiders]

Story of my life

 

[Virtuous_Brotha]

A good 90% of all my problems in life had a root cause of my anxiety

 

[jwonder]

This sounds like a cac problem. I don't know any black people that go through what the OP is talking about.

 

[TRFG]

good for you breh.

If its not the fear of something embarassng happenjng to me while talking to women its rejection she doesnt like me not into me i dont have a good job or good money. Or i feel they dont respect me or whatever. I've had flings with women but never really a real girlfriend and honestly i don't see myself having one or even getting married unless i get over this somehow.

I'll admit...a bunch of internalized insecurities about race (me and my surroundings and other people) and money factor into this apprehension. It only feeds into my social anxiety.

What happened to your job on Wall street?

 

[semtex]

Mine got better at the end of high school and even better in college. Now I'm in the corporate world and it feels like another awkward teenage phase again

I just graduated last year. College is a very predictable world, so naturally the anxiety flared up again after leaving.

My social life is in a weird fukkin place. I'm in a new city and should be out meeting new people but I stay in the damn house all day when I'm not working

 

[Virtuous_Brotha]

This sounds like a cac problem. I don't know any black people that go through what the OP is talking about.

if anything we should be the ones more likely to have this problem

 

[NelsonSwagdela]

i have a successful job that requires public speaking and interaction

and i have popular friends that go out a lot in LA party scene

and a gf thats very social


and i got a fukin severe panic disorder/social anxiety/mild depression


its starting to cripple my life,

when i go out sometimes in public i start to get light headed and feel like ima feint or pass out, and i can feel my heart rate spike. i wear a fit bit that tracks my heart. when im gettin a panic attack and anxiety, my heart rate goes from a standing 75 to like 130-140


no wonder im feeling sick and like ima feint, my heart is gong absolutely insane


its crippling my social life, affecting my relationships, and limiting my ability to travel.


im unable to leave anywhere outside my city



and i got a wedding in fukin thailand next year, and i gotta go to dallas to visit a friend next year as well




shyts a year away and im already like


i might fukin get a heart attack fo real from this anxiety shyt

Im kind of the same, I was in school politics, an athlete who did interviews and pretty socially intelligent and always got girls, no one would expect to have anxiety and depression but out of nowhere I got the worst anxiety it got to the point I wasn't leaving the house for days and I was getting so depressed. Honestly I don't know if I would still be on this earth if it wasn't for my girl and her being understanding. I don't know how I got to this point but things have been getting better.

 

[agnosticlady]

I had serious anxiety issues during high school. I have learned to deal with them and meditation helps me a lot.

 

[Couth]

You're wasting your life. You won't live forever. You gon sit around being scared til you drop? Or you gon go see what life really has to offer?
Most people deal with social anxiety on some level. The people who are winning at life choose to ignore it and persevere.

 

[Swirv]

I don't care to be around people who don't like me and I'm not taking any shyt from them either. Is that considered social anxiety?

 

[Fatboi1]

Most of the time though people aren't really checking you out. People are self absorbed. I used to always have some sort of self conscious feeling but I just stopped caring.

 

[Made Myself A Boss]

I've dealt with it and ive found a cure..

Just clinch down on ur teeth (near were your wisdom teeth are ) when you feel nervous...

And know that you are a beautiful person...

It will go away in a month or so if you keep doing this