Hi everyone, I'm a 21 year old guy from the UK and I found this site when i was looking around online about help for problems with things like social anxiety.
See recently I've started to find it more and more difficult to go out and socialise with people, friends or otherwise, whenever I was out with friends, I'd suddenly feel really nervous for no reason, then I'd get increasingly nauseous to the point I'm convinced I'm going to throw up, now it's got to the point where I'm just scared of going out with people and started making up excuses not to go out because I'm scared of this thing, which i don't even know why it's happening. A friend of mine (and so far the only person I've told about it) has told me to go to my local GP and see if I've really got social anxiety and if I can get some help, but I'm kind of nervous about it since i was worried maybe it's just me being a hypochondriac or something (plus my doctor kind of gives off the impression that he doesn't listen to half of what you're saying and just makes an assumption as soon as you walk in like he's all-knowing, which makes me a lot more nervous about going to him about this). I've always been a bit shy and nervous about going out with people, but this is something new and I'm really freaked out by it.
I hope I'm not over reacting and wasting your time, this just felt so strange to me that i had no idea where to go or what to do about it and knowing that makes me panic a little. So thanks in advance for having this little site that'll hopefully help me feel better, not to mention others.
See recently I've started to find it more and more difficult to go out and socialise with people, friends or otherwise, whenever I was out with friends, I'd suddenly feel really nervous for no reason, then I'd get increasingly nauseous to the point I'm convinced I'm going to throw up, now it's got to the point where I'm just scared of going out with people and started making up excuses not to go out because I'm scared of this thing, which i don't even know why it's happening. A friend of mine (and so far the only person I've told about it) has told me to go to my local GP and see if I've really got social anxiety and if I can get some help, but I'm kind of nervous about it since i was worried maybe it's just me being a hypochondriac or something (plus my doctor kind of gives off the impression that he doesn't listen to half of what you're saying and just makes an assumption as soon as you walk in like he's all-knowing, which makes me a lot more nervous about going to him about this). I've always been a bit shy and nervous about going out with people, but this is something new and I'm really freaked out by it.
I hope I'm not over reacting and wasting your time, this just felt so strange to me that i had no idea where to go or what to do about it and knowing that makes me panic a little. So thanks in advance for having this little site that'll hopefully help me feel better, not to mention others.
