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Re: Social Anxiety [Re: dr_gonz]
    #14520183 - 05/27/11 10:45 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

You dont have social anxiety, you have death anxiety.

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    #14520191 - 05/27/11 10:47 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Re: Social Anxiety [Re: dr_gonz]
    #14520932 - 05/27/11 01:39 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I've got social anxiety pretty bad too.

As much as I like weed, I think it only makes my anxiety worse. I find myself doing nothing all day and then at the end of the day I'm like, "Seriously? the day is already over?! I didn't do a damn thing!"

Weed is great in moderation, but too much of anything is never good.

Why does it have to be so hard to quit...  :bongload:  :shake:


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    #14520945 - 05/27/11 01:40 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Re: Social Anxiety [Re: Anonymous #1]
    #14529533 - 05/29/11 06:05 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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I can't stand crowded places, I suddenly get the urge to leave and go somewhere quiet to be alone. I'm often afraid to leave my house. For several months I thought I was overcoming this anxiety, I got a job and built an active social life, but lately it's been coming back strong. Today was the worst. When going out in public I couldn't stop sweating and it was hard to breathe. Lately I need to will myself to even go out with close friends. I'm afraid of making a permanent impression on every person I meet.

This is purely psychological and I've been searching for a long-term solution with no luck... Weed seems to help but I  haven't smoked for a few weeks... I tried an SSRI for a period of time but it felt numbing and deep down I had a strong moral opposition to it, and also fears about health effects I read of.

For those of you with social anxiety, what do you do to fight it?





I used to have social anxiety, then I quit drinking, smoking pot, and occasional cocaine binges. Then I started doing sports and meeting people.  One by one I gained more friends, and my social anxiety went away.  Also I went back to school, and sitting in class slowly helps you because the teacher pushes you to do group projects in certain classes.  You just have to get out of your comfort zone, keep pushing the limits, and soon enough you'll be very social and happy.

You could start by going to meditation classes, you'll meet other people with social anxiety and it will be small groups.  Then you can get into cognitive therapy groups that combine meditation and talking.  Its a different approach but its more structured and controlled.  Go to your local mental health place and ask if there's any meditation for anxiety classes.


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Re: Social Anxiety [Re: Irishdrunk]
    #14534720 - 05/30/11 07:49 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

If you watch a lot of porn and masturbate a lot, try stopping both for a few months (more importantly porn but both is beneficial for recovery). Will provide newfound invigoration and a powerful urge to just get out there! Too much porn warps your brain and makes you see the world in a different way, it can suck the life outta ya by leaving you physically and mentally drained by rewiring the brain and can turn people into introverted kooks.

Don't knock it til ya try it, will be hard but you'll start noticing the benefits soon enough. Revert back to the way your body was meant to function by not overstimulating yourself with false unrealistic imagery. Our brains weren't designed for that shit.

Not saying this applies to you but putting it out there as heavy porn use is being increasingly linked to social anxiety as well as increasingly prevalent sexual dysfunction in young people which can also contribute to social anxiety.

Of course, drugs don't help particularly weed. Few people seem to handle weed just fine but many just turn into scaredy cats mostly due to weed's nature of causing people to over-analyze situations leading to the ol - "paralysis by analysis".

Just my 2c.


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Re: Social Anxiety [Re: dr_gonz]
    #14534899 - 05/30/11 09:07 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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my point is that OP needs to realize that in the grand scheme of it all none of this really matters. if he can trace that feeling to the root of his anxiety he'd see there is nothing to fret over. I hate going to crowded places too, probably more than OP, but I've learned that anxiety serves no beneficial purpose in my life. breathing, and presence of mind is helpful.

xanax is helpful when used in moderation.




That sounds great but doesn't actually offer any help, and demonstrates to me that your anxiety is probably not all that bad.

People try and make it out like "oh well if you just realize that it doesn't matter it's ok". I'm sorry but that doesn't really work. If I could choose to be less anxious just by "tracing the root of my anxiety" it wouldn't be a problem for me. If you can do this it clearly isn't a real problem for you.

To me it's like saying well if you stick your hand in a fire, and just realize that in the grand scheme of things your hand burning doesn't really matter, you wouldn't feel compelled to pull your hand out of the fire.


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Re: Social Anxiety [Re: Heffy]
    #14605534 - 06/13/11 10:59 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Social Anxiety...anxiety in general...something I truly fucking despise beyond the comprehension of words...I've only had one, two, maybe three real panic attacks in my life and holy fucking jesus, fuck that shit. I broke out in hives all over my body and felt like I was being crushed, like in a car cruncher they use at junk yards or something--for about 9 hours, couldn't sleep until 7 in the morning.

My anxiety typically just takes me to the threshold of that place when its at its worse (never crosses thank god, except for those few times) but seriously, its enough to make you go fucking insane. I feel like my own family (not parents/sibling) hate me or look at me like a freak (people who I've heard nothing but love & support from my entire life). Its just what the feelings do, they run your thoughts into madness, which is why mediation is helpful as it teaches you to let go of thought and not be so attached to feelings at the same time. Takes time but its worth the effort.

I think you should try to find a place where you can go to a group meeting for people with mental disorders (bi-polar, anxiety, depression) or if you can find it--social anxiety group sessions. Same thing as with Alcoholics Anonymous. This shit does work, its the reason you came here and are talking to us. To know that other people are going through the same hell makes you feel better and connected when you've felt like shit and totally alienated from others. All of the sudden you find that you aren't different and your condition is actually quite common and you aren't alone in your misery!

Also, if you go to one of these meetings, what is there to be scared of? You know just by being there that everyone is fucked in the EXACT SAME FUCKING WAY as you. Everything you described about yourself I either deal with or have dealt with in the past.

Seeing people in the same condition will teach you to accept yourself and be yourself, which is the entire problem imo. Of course, you can't just "go be yourself and live" like other people suggest as you and I know its never that easy, but it is the essence of what needs to be done...its just not a quick fix...


sidenote: I just realized I'm bringing a 14 day thread back to life but I just wrote all this so fuck it..I was only trying to help lol


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