Do you talk openly about your SA?

[deleted user 1]

Mainly my family knows and their level of tolerance towards it varies. I think at times they just see me as being an extremely selfish weak person and I only do things if I want to do them. It does take a lot of momentum to do any social encounter for me and eventually that runs out and I have to re charge my batteries. It doesn’t mean I have given up fighting this but some social events I don’t feel it is worth feeling tortured over. I also feel at times they only show understanding when it doesn’t conflict with something they want from me.

Some people just notice it in me and I have been told that I am nervous by nature.

I couldn't agree more. Well said.

 

[Falkor]

Yes I do. Talking is the best medicine , it really helps to talk things of your chest. People will know why I don't go out, what is going on in my life.
I told my parents, family and friends. Most of them all reacted very positively.
They accept me, and support me
But some of them didn't know how to react... and some bullies in the past will always stay rude, but that's why I never get in touch with those people anymore I think it's good that people know about it. because it's not a shame, right? its something i deal with everyday, so people should know..
they will wonder eventually what is going on with me, so sometimes they ask.. and I just tell =)

 

[Tiercel]

I was just wondering, do any of you ever admit to people that you have SA?
I didn't at first but now people just ask why I don't go out and I tell them straight out that I had agoraphobia...
If you don't tell people why not?
And if you do, why do you?

I've only told people here about my problems. I always just keep to myself. So if I never talk about anything else, I figure that people don't want or need to know about why I am the way I am.

Why don't I tell people? Fear, mostly. The last time I tried explaining something to someone (depression to a female friend in high school) she told me that I should be locked up in a mental hospital. So I don't really trust people to not look at me as either some psychiatric puzzle to be figured out or one to be insulted. That and I can't be bothered to explain social anxiety, AvPD, and the insidious nature of depression to people.

But I do tell people here. I figure we're all equally fed, so it can't really hurt anyone.

 

[deleted user 1]

I've only told people here about my problems. I always just keep to myself. So if I never talk about anything else, I figure that people don't want or need to know about why I am the way I am.

Why don't I tell people? Fear, mostly. The last time I tried explaining something to someone (depression to a female friend in high school) she told me that I should be locked up in a mental hospital. So I don't really trust people to not look at me as either some psychiatric puzzle to be figured out or one to be insulted. That and I can't be bothered to explain social anxiety, AvPD, and the insidious nature of depression to people.

But I do tell people here. I figure we're all equally fed, so it can't really hurt anyone.

LMAO! Don't throw in the towel just yet. We're all human, we're all hardwired to be social. We just need to relearn the skills that everyone else has. Or should I say, that everyone else SHOULD have. Confident, outgoing people, can often be verbally clumsy and actually quite inneffective, lol.