I had therapy for my social anxiety (among other things), but it was so bad that I couldn't even turn up for most appointments! How the hell can it work for people who can't even bare to be in the same room as another person?
That was about 5-6 years ago, and I'm still pretty much housebound.
That runs in my family. My mum didn't leave the house at all for a couple of years when I was four or five and was so frustrated by it that she became uncharacteristically violent.
I gave up on university for pretty much the same reason and both my parents thought I was just lazy or useless or something. When she and I were out for dinner one time, I told her and she was in floods of tears in the restaurant. In retrospect, I guess it's because she was sad she'd passed this on to me.
But both of us lead fairly normal lives now. We're both extremely social people who'll talk to just about anyone. It's difficult but there's always a way out of things like this. I hope you find your way out too. Don't give up hope.
Have you ever had therapy?
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I had therapy for my social anxiety (among other things), but it was so bad that I couldn't even turn up for most appointments! How the hell can it work for people who can't even bare to be in the same room as another person?
That was about 5-6 years ago, and I'm still pretty much housebound.
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That runs in my family. My mum didn't leave the house at all for a couple of years when I was four or five and was so frustrated by it that she became uncharacteristically violent.
I gave up on university for pretty much the same reason and both my parents thought I was just lazy or useless or something. When she and I were out for dinner one time, I told her and she was in floods of tears in the restaurant. In retrospect, I guess it's because she was sad she'd passed this on to me.
But both of us lead fairly normal lives now. We're both extremely social people who'll talk to just about anyone. It's difficult but there's always a way out of things like this. I hope you find your way out too. Don't give up hope.