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[Be Who You Are]

Hi Everyone

I am Amanda and I suffer from Social Anxiety. I am tired of suffering alone and no-one understands how I am feeling. I just want to connect with people who feel the same.

[Kaz000]

Hi Amanda,

I’m the same. I dislike large crowds and loud environment. I am very introvert too, which doesn’t help.

[quirkywords]

Be who you are, and waves to Kaz

Welcome and thanks for your posts.

Thanks for being honest it is hard explaining how one feels with social anxiety.

I sometimes am a talker and appear confident but that masks my insecurities and often I say too much and ramble on and all i want to do is go home.

How do you both cope? Do you avoid situations or do you have a way of coping with social gatherings.

[Be Who You Are]

unfortunately I avoid situations that make me feel uncomfortable, like social situations or sometimes I have to pych myself up just to do it. I know what I have to do, the problem is breaking through the fear and just do it anyway.

sorry for the very late reply

[quirkywords]

Thanks be who you are for your reply.

I think small steps is helpful like trying to got to a small social situation fora short amount of time.
At the moment there probably not ,any social situations to attend.
take care.