I Have Social Anxiety Stories of Experiences

I can't remember if I've ever felt "free". Everywhere I go, there is a voice inside me, telling me what the people around me are thinking. "She's ugly", "She's fat", "Look at that hair", "Look at how she's dressed". Sometimes i wish I...

I have been battling SAD for over 2 years now and with a lot of effort and with the help of some people I have been able to survive without the meds.
But, still there are those awkward moments when I do not understand what to do and...

I haven't been on my anxiety meds(clonazepam) lately and I think I'm starting to be more afraid of the public.

.I like knowing the few I work with and my friends but I find myself rejecting potential fun things just because of the...

Its a constant struggle.Anywhere I go, I feel as if someone is judging me by what I look like and what I say.In social situations, my brain goes blank and I will say the oddest things, especially if its someone I find attractive.Its...

Hallo,First off, I have no specific point about my social anxiety or phobia or fear whatever ! I want to talk about myself express thing to you in my world. When I said my world I meant my world which is for me and no one inside.
I have...

Right, so I trawl the internet over the last 5 years because its easier than going out.
I seem to have strong symptoms of chronic depression, early onset, social anxiety, phone anxiety, dealing with people and the unknown anxiety, some...

Being around people (other than my boyfriend) is almost frightening today. Even seeing people out of my window. Sometimes I wish I could just be on my own planet with the few people I can be around when I am feeling this way. I feel...

If I don't have my pills, I get nervous and start overheating by walking in big crowds. I get scared to talk to people, except my family and best friend. I hate it! I also have depression so that doesn't help. Sometimes I hate my life.

I noticed that avoiding people makes social anxiety much worse. If I don't go outside for a while, I can no longer handle having anybody within 5 ft of me. When I deal with people on a regular basis, I still don't want them near me but...

I was thinking of this today because I often go for walks. I hate that I have to walk with strangers watching, but I guess the need to get outside and exercise must be greater for me than the fear of strangers staring at me. I go for...

I lived through it though, for years. Lately I've been feeling more confident, and have also made the decision to discontinue my anxiety medication (Valium) because I don't think it's doing much good for me anymore. I've been on a low...

Having social anxiety is a tough thing to deal with, over the years my anxiety had slowly started to gather up until, well, it was hard for me to interact with anyone, and for a short period of time, I became obsessed and clingy to...

I Can relate to having had and at certain times having social anxiety.
But for me at certain times there was something bothering me that I did not want to face so I didn't want anyone to ask me so i kept to myself.
Not a good Idea...

I found this post on another website and felt compelled to share it here. I feel it defines me.
I wish it weren't so.

"It's as if I' two different people. There is the person who exists on the surface, the person that other people...

I think I have social Anxiety because when large groups are around or im in church, movies theaters, at a park, just pretty much anywhere where there is gonna be a lot of people I start to get really nervous and sometimes even scared...

i worry before it happens but i know its coming
that morning when i have to return to my nightmare come true
after getting beat down my eye is black, eyebrow busted open,
my lips are swollen an my concusion mostly healed, but fear,
fear...

I guess I've kind of written about this before, but I don't know, writing just helps me make sense of things....

I've been listening to this song on repeat lately, I'm Still Here, by The GooGoo Dolls, it was in that one movie Treasure...

I am a very antisocial person (with SAD, of course). I never hang out with people, I never go out, I panic around strangers, and I only have one friend in my whole damn town (who has always treated me like garbage). To be honest, I don...

"You're so quiet", "you're weird", "Why did you do that? You should know better", "You're such a worrywart"
Those are examples of phrases that I hear way too often that I absolutely hate. They make me feel even worse. When I make an...

There are many things about socializing which are problematic to me. I'm not sure it is exactly social anxiety, but there are parts of it that do include anxiety. For starters, I don't like to be in big groups and if I have to do...