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I struggle from social anxiety. I am trying to get over it by doing behavioral experiments. There is a problem now with social distancing certain types of experiments with approaching stranger are being advised against. Anybody dealing with social anxiety this way.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to put this, I wasn't really sure where else it would fit and technically I have been diagnosed with social anxiety. Anyway, today my issue is that I don't get myself at all. I'm a walking contradiction. On the one hand, I'm terrified of winding up old and alone, on the other I tend to avoid human interaction and be extremely introverted. It's like I want to have ...

Does anyone else feel this way? It seems like I easily get embarrassed by my body's biological needs. For example, if my stomach growls around others. I suppose that one's fairly common, but it seems strange to me. Why get embarrassed over something you have no control over? Why get embarrassed about being hungry? I know it's irrational, yet I get embarrassed anyway and try to hide it. This also goes for other biological needs, ...

I have a lot of phobias, social phobia is just one of many. I do not easily like socialising at all. I am not too averse to it, but I have had so many bad experiences socially that I am not so well now. Every social situation seems to turn to catastrophe.

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So recently my mum got diagnosed with schizophrenia and I got diagnosed with general anxiety but I don’t think I have that because the only thing I’m scared of is people. It’s like i can’t walk down the street I feel like everyone’s watching my facial expressions or they can tell I’m anxious/ not reacting normally. CCTV freaks me out too. I avoid talking to people because I’ll get stuck in a conversation and ...

Hi I am new to this forum and would like to begin to know more about myself and why I am socially anxious.
This is my childhood. All this was relayed to me. had a neglectful mom whom I lived with till the age of 2 or 3, my father was absent mostly. They fought all the time.
Then I was forcibly removed from my mum by my dad and brought to live with my ...

I’m a twenty year old male student living in southern Germany and I’m awkwardly anxious around the opposite sex. You see, throughout my whole school time I was subject to bullying or being made fun of. I never managed to stand up against it or somehow manage to build up some self-esteem. Instead most of the times I started to isolate myself and even started to see those who didn’t have anything against as enemies. ...

I am so anxious right now, all I want to do is sleep, watch porn and read the bible.

When I go around my mom all she does is bring up how I was bullied and it shouldn't effect me.

This just causes me to become disturbed, anxious and I start hating everyone...

I'm not a schizoid or a misanthropist. I don't know what to do, My mom is like a broken record.

I can't ...

Hello everyone,

I'm new to these forums but I have a question regarding klonopin withdrawal. I started taking klonopin back in January of 2018 because I was unable to sleep. I have long had sleep problems but at this time I went 2 weeks without even a minute of sleep so I was at my wits end and klonopin was the only thing that worked. Anyway, I took it for 11 days straight and then ...

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i am new here my name is Nando and i have always had general anxiety but more than anything i have a strong phobia of people, even though i love meeting new people and going out and having fun.

My main problem is that when i am around a big crowd 4 plus. I get out of my personal comfort zone and go into what i call spectator mode, i CANNOT do presentations or ...