Social Anxiety: Share your Experience Here!

My biggest social anxiety feels like such a dumb thing to me - I get actual sweaty palms and heart palpitations talking on the phone to anyone new. If I have to call anywhere new even for such a simple as a doctors appointment it makes me so nervous.

It always takes me a couple of hours of hyping myself up. I hate this about myself :(

My social anxiety is getting worse now. I can't stop thinking about the awkward situations I have dealt with. Being around people scares me the most. Whenever I am in such a situation my mind goes blank and I start shivering. I just can't be my best at the moment.

For some reason the older i get the more my social anxiety escalates, I'm 44 and feel like I should be able to breath now but can't, it's getting to where I don't even want to go to my partners family house because it's just to much and I'm comfortable at home. I'm I the only person who feels like this??

i feel like i do, i think everyone is watching me and that i am going to do something stupid or just not do well in a basic task.

@Jenn7cups

Growing up, I loved being around people and hanging out with friends. Even times when I didn't have friends I naturally made them. Everyone would say how much fun I was to have around or entertaining.

In high school, I still had friends and wasn't afraid to talk to people. I even worked at a Mcdonald's and I was in the band. I was able to be myself even if I was in front of a crowd.

Then in college, it was the first time I experienced depression it was awful but I was able to get through it. Actually, I would say my freshmen year of college was a bit rough for me. My sophomore year was fine. But by my junior year, I had bad roommates and drama with people and I was still struggling with school. I even struggled with professors.

I was in this relationship that really killed my self-esteem. Then after graduating I was at this job that was so mentally exhausting and a lot of people who worked there were so toxic. Actually sort of thankful for the pandemic in the sense that it pushed me to get a new job. Then at that new job, this one guy was trying to get me fired.

I finally have a new job that I fit in but I still struggle with talking to people. I don't have any friends after having so many bad ones.

It's weird for me to see how I live my life so isolated since I grew up being around so many people.

I think my social anxiety is from constant mistreatment from others over the years. I'm even socially anxious sometimes when driving in traffic. I am okay talking to workers because they're just doing a job.

Finding people I relate to is a very hard thing for me to do.

@Jenn7Cups

Hi! I believe I have social anxiety, although I am not officially diagnosed. I often feel extremely stressed to do simple things, like answering a phone call or going to the grocery store. At school, I almost have no interactions with my classmates, because I am afraid that if I talk to them, they will judge me negatively. So, I just sit in the classroom all day, studying, or pretending to be studying, just to avoid any conversations. I don’t know if I want to start talking to them, both talking and sitting alone feel uncomfortable. Because if I talk, they will judge what I say and if I sit alone, they will judge me for sitting alone all day. Or that’s just what I think.