Any advice?
Hello everyone , my name is laith I'm 19 and I would love to listen to all of your advices regarding my anxiety issue and what type of anxiety that I am facing since I can't tell honestly, so here goes my problem/story ... .
so I will start from the very beginning of when my anxiety problems first occurred to me .
i have been in an all boys school for all of myschool life, and never talked to girls other than my sisters and relatives ( that's kind of the situation for most of the males of my age during school life at my country), so when I finished school I signed up for university and all and started my university life was fun and I talked to girls and made a few new female friends it's was all good until one day I wanted to befriend a girl in my class who was sitting alone and had no friends she was pretty hard to approach anyway we became friends ...(this is where my anxiety starts ) and we decided to hangout and after a few days I realized I had a crush on her, So there was this one time we went along with my friend to eat and at the restaurant each person ordered his plate of food and stuff ... and when it was time to eat I got all panicky and my anxiety hit the climax I couldn't eat at all so I forced myself to eat and because of that I had a strong urge to puke so I rushed to the bathroom and puked and after that I had diarrhea , and since then every time I go out with a girl I like everything would be fun and perfect until it's time to eat I can't put food in my body around them
That sounds like a kind of social anxiety because it happens in social situations. It is difficult to be precise in an Internet forum. To be sure about what is happening to you, a professional would need to assess you in real life.
If it is just a kind of social anxiety, then it would likely be pretty easy for a therapist to treat. I don't know what the arrangements for that are in your country. Perhaps your university has support services that might be a place to start.
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