I dunnno if anyone else does this but I seem to slowly avoid anyone I have been in contact with and that includes my best/close friends. I had a group of girls who I have been friends since high school. I used to talk to them a lot until my second year of university. We'd be doing stuff together every couple of weeks and we'd text pretty often. Then suddenly in second year, I seem to talk to them much less. I noticed that I tried to sit in some of their classes and hang out and stuff. The frequency of hanging out with them was much lower. Not exactly sure why though. I've only figured out that I had probably had SA during my first year. My second year, I just wanted to drop school and go back to my area since there was much more resources for SA. I haven't told them yet, even now. I can't seem to dissect why I avoid them now. During my third year starting new at UofT, I realized that I barely, barely talk to them. I think I got a couple of texts and msgs online asking if I wanted to get together, but I'd usually make some random excuse.
Does SA affect friendships that much?
I've also avoided a lot of my family even though we live in the same house. I share a room with my cousin. We used to hang around a lot as kids. I don't know what happened, but ever since I moved in with him (I used to live away from my dad and my aunt) our relationship seems to have gotten worse. I rarely play games with him. I get irritate by him really easily. Everytime he comes to ask me anything, I avoid his eyes and continue to stare at my computer screen or keep myself occupied. Each time he asks me anything, I 'feel' that they are ridiculous questions even though they are perfectly valid when I think about it afterwards. My response is always some irritated and annoyed tone and it happens automatically. We both just seem to stick to our own little bubbles in the room.
I avoid a lot of my family most of the time. I can't speak my native language fluently enough to keep up a conversation, so I either answer with one word responses or avoid them entirely. My relationship with my dad is just terrible. He has a short fuse and shows his anger. I easily get frustrated and depressed when either of us try to communicate to each other because it never ends positively. I think I've stayed in my room for the majority of my high school/university life. I just recently told my dad and aunt about my SA, needing a doctor to help interpret.
My best/close friends who I've met since we were kids. We started losing contact with each other or maybe its me doing it. I talked a lot with them online through skype. I don't remember who introduced me to skype calls. I remember it being such a great benefit because my best friends always played online games with their friends and introduced me to them. Later on I would meet some of them as a get together downtown. I don't know what happened, but I literally just stopped joining in on the calls entirely. Just one or two days of not talking with them and now I've been avoiding them to the point of not us not playing the same games anymore. I don't even chat on skype even though they're always there talking with each other. I haven't asked my best friends if they thought this was odd, but I think they know since they've pvt msging me on skype. I seldom text with them if anything new happens.
Don't know if other people get these situations, but it's feels weird in my perspective.
Is it SA or depression?
Does SA affect friendships that much?
I've also avoided a lot of my family even though we live in the same house. I share a room with my cousin. We used to hang around a lot as kids. I don't know what happened, but ever since I moved in with him (I used to live away from my dad and my aunt) our relationship seems to have gotten worse. I rarely play games with him. I get irritate by him really easily. Everytime he comes to ask me anything, I avoid his eyes and continue to stare at my computer screen or keep myself occupied. Each time he asks me anything, I 'feel' that they are ridiculous questions even though they are perfectly valid when I think about it afterwards. My response is always some irritated and annoyed tone and it happens automatically. We both just seem to stick to our own little bubbles in the room.
I avoid a lot of my family most of the time. I can't speak my native language fluently enough to keep up a conversation, so I either answer with one word responses or avoid them entirely. My relationship with my dad is just terrible. He has a short fuse and shows his anger. I easily get frustrated and depressed when either of us try to communicate to each other because it never ends positively. I think I've stayed in my room for the majority of my high school/university life. I just recently told my dad and aunt about my SA, needing a doctor to help interpret.
My best/close friends who I've met since we were kids. We started losing contact with each other or maybe its me doing it. I talked a lot with them online through skype. I don't remember who introduced me to skype calls. I remember it being such a great benefit because my best friends always played online games with their friends and introduced me to them. Later on I would meet some of them as a get together downtown. I don't know what happened, but I literally just stopped joining in on the calls entirely. Just one or two days of not talking with them and now I've been avoiding them to the point of not us not playing the same games anymore. I don't even chat on skype even though they're always there talking with each other. I haven't asked my best friends if they thought this was odd, but I think they know since they've pvt msging me on skype. I seldom text with them if anything new happens.
Don't know if other people get these situations, but it's feels weird in my perspective.
Is it SA or depression?
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