Sup Forums, what do you think of people with social anxiety?

Sup Forums, what do you think of people with social anxiety?

I beat mine to a huge extent and I had a severe case of it. I expect it to be completely gone within the next 6 months.

It's one of those bullshit conditions that people think they have because they smoke too much weed and stay cooped up in their homes playing video games instead of interacting with others

I hate it I can't talk to people

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Well that's just fucking stupid and objectively false.

it kind of makes me sad. Cause i will approach someone and introduce myself and ask to hang out and because of their social anxiety they see me as overbearing and a source of discomfort.

That they spend too much time on Sup Forums

>what do you think of people with social anxiety?

i'm too scared to ask..

Social skills are like a muscle. They need to be worked in order to stay strong. Keep believing you have some sort of problem though

I'm with this guy, bullshit "mental condition" that people self-diagnose for pity or attention, which in turn detracts from people who GENUINELY have mental disorders. Being shy isn't a fucking mental disorder, get over yourself.

they make me nervous

You have a ridiculously oversimplified view of human psychology. Social skills needing maintenance does not mean that it's made up, or that people with it don't work on it. I'm not talking about myself, I'm talking about the concept in general.

Social anxiety fits the textbook definition of a mental disorder. It fits all the criteria.

made me kek/10

>invented for pity or attention
Yup, I get loads of attention in my apartment by myself. Social Anxiety=/=Shy
Shy is being wary of new people. Social anxiety causes your body to enter fight or flight mode. You armchair psychologists are a dime a dozen.
Back to your hole, bitch.

I work in the field and have a psych degree, I also beat social anxiety. I know the ins and outs of it along with how to fix it.

How

A multitude of techniques that should be applied together. Breathing techniques, exposure to social situations, exercise, working out other problems in your life, cognitive behavioral tricks, making sure that you aren't deficient in vitamins, getting a therapist or regularly talking it out with someone close to you, it's a whole laundry list

Honestly I kinda wish I had social anxiety to justify me not doing anything social ever. I would be surprised if most of the people here not trolling were just socially anxious people looking to talk.

You not doing anything social ever could easily be a different mental issue. Depends on why you don't do anything social.

I've tried all that, been fighting it for years. It sucks so bad I had to go on SSDisability, because it only got worse and worse.

When you say that you've tried all those things, do you mean that you've kept up doing those as habits or just did them for a period of a few weeks or a month? If you do all of those things regularly and it keeps getting worse, there is something else wrong.

I would think I have social anxiety.
I work in a retail job, though. I have what I call pre-recorded responses and can handle most customer interactions with them but when the conversation strays I find myself sweaty and my heartbeat speeds up.
Going to parties with friends is a whole other battle. If they can convince me to come, I'm usually fighting myself the whole way there and worrying if they'll notice that I'm not like them.

Food stamp rats that just want to collect SSI.

Anybody feel they've developed it because of staying indoors for long periods of time online? Spent about 3 years of my life playing games and not socialising much and then when I started socialising again I become this socially awkward retard like doing anything to avoid people etc, anyone got any tips?

My anxiety stems from being the "other"
I exist in severe anomie. I can be acquaintances with most people but only have 2 actual friends and even they don't get me all the time.

If I could, I would live alone and waste my life on whatever interests me, only leaving when I have to.

That absolutely does happen, my advice is this

Also go outside more. Not even in public, but just in nature.

I also have a girlfriend and sometimes tiny things make me over react completely and she doesn't have much patience which kind of sucks. I read online that this is a symptom of anxiety, Is that correct?

I'd had periods where I stayed indoors. I think I went 8 months without leaving the house at one point but I've been like this before. Wanting to stay inside is a symptom of my anxiety, not the cause.

Over-reacting is a general symptom of neuroses. You have social anxiety and you're hurting bud.

it can be both.

I mean for years. Problem is people figure it out and start fucking with me, and it goes exponential from their. I have major clinical depression, and schitzotypal personality disorder, too.

I suggest you get a different therapist and make sure she/he knows cognitive behavioral therapy. Schizotypal sucks man and it's stubborn. To be honest, I don't believe that you did all of those things regularly and things kept getting worse unless you're leaving out some other factor causing you increasing levels of distress.

For me it went the other way. I was always shy, but I had a life, went to college, had a FEW girlfriends, and after I entered the working world, it just snowballed, and I lost a succession of jobs from being bullied around. I was taking meds and therapy for all those years, to no avail, and after my last job blackballed me I finally said fuck it and withdrew from the fight. I'm oldfag, btw, so I mean over a period of 30 years or so...

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I will admit, the CBT I had was pretty half-assed, but being broke and unemployable, the best I can get is what's offered at MHMR. I did have real doctors before, when working, but no CBT at that time.

Am 20 and can't hold down a job because of it, fucking sucks shit.

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You can apply CBT without someone helping you dude. Think about all the negative thoughts and feelings that come up, really sit down and decide what is rational and not.

When you decide which ones are irrational, remind yourself of that every time they come up. Eventualy, your brain will re-wire itself.

I'm educated and trained in the field, and I have personal experience defeating it myself. Saying social anxiety doesn't exist is 100% verifiably false.

This is absolutely true. The more time you spend in social situations the better ans more relaxed it feels. Most people dont do well in social situations to begin with which is why most people hate public speaking. When im in front of large groups its tough if it hasnt been a long time but you have to put yourself in those situations like performing live so you build up a tolerance

I hate shy people even more than extroverts. Extroverts I can talk to, debate, etc but shy people usually think they are hot shit and fear social misfits like myself. I try to approach shy people thinking that we "relate" but the result is desastrous. They react like I'm the creep (which I am).

It's actually only half true. Working on social skills does help them, but pretending social anxiety is a non-issue or made up is dumb as fuck.

THIS X 10000000

Everyone is a little bit shy or awkward one time or another. Everyone gets a little bit nervous giving a presentation. Social-anxiety is another thing... More exposure, more failure makes it worse. Locking an arachnophobic inside a room full of spider will not cure the person, it will freak the shit out of her

Sounds like you're just a faggot