Overwhelmed

Do you feel so overwhelmed by people around you that you feel like bursting out crying? This happens to me at work sometimes. If there are a lot of people around me i feel all panicky and i just want to run. Obviously i don't burst out crying but the emotions that i feel makes me feel that i'm having a breakdown.

Yeh I'm get like that sometimes, even with my friends =/ cos they are mostly outgoing people and I'm like the only quiet one, sometimes I can feel really overwhelmed by them all and then get angry at myself for being like that. Actually the other day at lunch time in school I got so overwhelmed I just started shaking and getting nervous so I just went to computer room to be alone and calm down a bit :s

If there are a lot of people around me i feel all panicky an

Same here. Does the fear of criticism/ being judge rearing its ugly head? I usually go to the coffee machine/printer when no is around. Talk about avoiding social contact!

I used to feel like that lots of times. I don't feel overwhelmed too much due to SP alone. Only time I would feel like this due to SP alone is at a party or a large gathering with lots of unknown people. I don't get invited those kinda things much anyway.

Having said that, I do feel constantly overwhelmed at work. That is mainly due to amount of work and my work output. I mean one of the root causes of this is SP. You know being reluctant to call or meet with people, cannot concentrate and cannot communicate very well. The other cause is I don't work very well under stress and this spirals out quickly.

Oh yeah.. I time my visits to the water cooler so I don't have to talk to people to much. And yeah when I am overwhelmed .. .. When I was at uni/school, library was always good... especially the self study desks. Hmmm hiding in uni library upstairs between the shelfs of old books ... ah the memories.

-SS