Originally Posted by liaxo

I wish you could come to the jungle with me, rainbow, you always leave a stronger, better man.

Originally Posted by SkulFuk

I don't do pills to deal with mine, I just forced myself into being around those human creature thingies. Not exactly my idea of a good time, but eventually you "get used to" familiar peoples existence making them non issues - rinse, repeat, eventually the humans in the outside world become less horrible.

Most people get sent off for cognitive therapy, the idea being that social anxiety issues are all lumped into the "you're thinking too much about the situation" category - so they basically reprogram you into no having said thoughts.

OFC there's people who don't have said thought issues, and instead have some form of physical reaction to situations without thinking about it - eg me. That's when they try to dope you up on crap. None of them work on me, so yeah, it's great fun.

IMO fight on through it. It sucks initially, but as time goes on it sucks less.

As a side note (and a completely un-recomended one) alcohol & narcotics kill the symptoms. Just don't rely on it for obvious reasons, however for things like parties & social get togethers it's a godsend.

Originally Posted by Hush

My twin sister and my mom (before we were born) couldn't leave their house or they'd have legitimate panic attacks

There is a certain amount of social anxiety that you can't just beat


And it runs in my family :^(

Originally Posted by liaxo

Minor update, skinflappers.
I've talked to she skullfucker, and I'm gonna be doing some reqruitment and
reinvigoration of our glorious clan, I'llprobably make a thread about it one of the following days.
So live on and prosper guys

Originally Posted by liaxo

Minor update, skinflappers.
I've talked to she skullfucker, and I'm gonna be doing some reqruitment and
reinvigoration of our glorious clan, I'llprobably make a thread about it one of the following days.
So live on and prosper guys

Originally Posted by rainboweye

Oh seems like our whole [Parrot] is suffering from social anxiety.
I don't have any problems (or avoidance) towards my family and familiar friends at all. It's just the public and I don't know specially the ones near my age. The elderly I don't have problems with them.

Social anxiety has its biological reasons yes but mostly it is caused by your thoughts so the cure would be to convince you that your thoughts are wrong. Most of us know that their thoughts are wrong but it's not that easy to get over them.

I didn't experience any symptoms or maybe just a little blushing once or twice but my major problem is that I avoid a lot. I wasted two years avoiding life just like your sister, Hush. I just sat at home... How sad wasting your young life like that.
We all have our different experiences with Social Anxiety like our symptoms differ and such so what works for us also differs and I don't think pills will do anything for me but harm me a lot. And drugs and alcohol come on Skul that will harm me more :P

Originally Posted by rainboweye

You too have social anxiety ? Are you kidding me ? It's only you left, liaxo. Join us and have social anxiety ; ) I guarantee the best life in history ; )
Also macho don't worry you'll get better but you have to see some doctors to help you through this period with social anxiety and you'll get rid of it because it's an illness that we can cure completely (thank god we're lucky). You're not the only one not going outside anyone that has social anxiety doesn't go outside. As I said I've wasted 2 whole years at home not knowing what is my problem before I decided to meet a doctor. Have you seen any doctors before ?
Are you in the 11th grade, macho ?
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