hi everyone

[10rdrummer]

hi, i'm 10rdrummer. I'm 17 years old and a senior in high school. I definitely have SAD but not as severe as some people. In my family, I am open and talk a lot, but out in the real world i barely say a word. I dread going to school just for the fact that i'm extremely quiet and my peers give me a hard time about it. I have few friends at school, maybe 2 or 3, and spend a lot of time at home. I don't fit into any crowd but kind of wander on my own. In social situations, i will think too much about what i'm going to say and sound really stupid and make little sense. I get really tense in public and I am really paranoid about people staring at me.

im glad that i found this forum so that I can talk to people who are a lot like me. I hope this forum will help me some with the problems that I face.

 

[sleepysparrow]

Hi. It's good that you have a few friends with you in school and parents that understand you, that always makes things a little easier than dealing with SA alone. I'm terrified of people staring at me and I hate public places with lots of people, i've felt this way for as long as i've been alive and i'm 26...
Have you always felt anxiety around people, or has it just developed recently?

 

[10rdrummer]

it's been this way for my whole life, but now it's worsened. the more people tell me i'm quiet, the more it brings me down.