Matthew
New member
(Warning:I'm terrible at introductions)
Hello~ my name is Matthew
i'm from California, im in my teens~
I decided to join this site so maybe i could find some kind of help overcoming my Social Phobia~ i'v been this way for about 5-6 years now, but just recently learned what it was called, i always thought i was just "painfully shy"~but i saw a commercial on TV for Zoloft? i think, my brother jokingly said "Look, its Matt!" (because the man in the commercial was acting very similar to how i act) soo~ i looked up Social Phobia online and read all the symptoms and i'm 110% sure i have it~ i asked my mother to buy me the medication, but she said "You dont need it, you're just shy~ you'll grow out of it" i really wish that was true, i can't stand living like this anymore~
it's really starting to get to me, i can't even talk on the phone/order my own food at resteraunts/look people in the eye/etc.. im really scared people think im being rude, too.. because i hardly say a word around people i dont know very well, it's EXTREMELY hard for me to make friends, the only ones i have i met back in third grade, haha..a boy i had a crush on asked me out to the movies a few nights ago, but i had to say no, its hard enough for me to go out with my close friends, i dont think ill ever be able to go on a date, not unless i overcome this somehow.
I really want to go to college and become a Botanist when i graduate, but lately iv been thinking "I cant even get a little summer job because the interview scares me too much, how on earth am i going to sign up/attend college?" :?
wow this post is really long, im so sorry! i'll stop now.
Hello~ my name is Matthew
i'm from California, im in my teens~
I decided to join this site so maybe i could find some kind of help overcoming my Social Phobia~ i'v been this way for about 5-6 years now, but just recently learned what it was called, i always thought i was just "painfully shy"~but i saw a commercial on TV for Zoloft? i think, my brother jokingly said "Look, its Matt!" (because the man in the commercial was acting very similar to how i act) soo~ i looked up Social Phobia online and read all the symptoms and i'm 110% sure i have it~ i asked my mother to buy me the medication, but she said "You dont need it, you're just shy
~ you'll grow out of it" i really wish that was true, i can't stand living like this anymore~it's really starting to get to me, i can't even talk on the phone/order my own food at resteraunts/look people in the eye/etc.. im really scared people think im being rude, too.. because i hardly say a word around people i dont know very well, it's EXTREMELY hard for me to make friends, the only ones i have i met back in third grade, haha..a boy i had a crush on asked me out to the movies a few nights ago, but i had to say no, its hard enough for me to go out with my close friends, i dont think ill ever be able to go on a date, not unless i overcome this somehow.
I really want to go to college and become a Botanist when i graduate, but lately iv been thinking "I cant even get a little summer job because the interview scares me too much, how on earth am i going to sign up/attend college?" :?
wow this post is really long, im so sorry! i'll stop now.
