How Old are you & how long w/SP?
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Highandlow
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I have had sa for 36 years... it´s more than enough.
corrinaelizabeth
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im 22 and have always been very shy but noticed it got worse about when i was 14 but really bad 16/17 hey im goin 2 docs 2moz 2 get properly diagnosed and 2 c the right therapist argh!!!!
LA-girl
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I'm 27...28 next saturday! :mrgreen:
My SA started when I was about 14 years old. It had it's peak when I was 18 when I developed a severe depression due to my SA. It has luckily gotten better since then. At least I'm not depressed anymore and I don't care so much when I experience panic attacks. Earlier I used to obsess a lot ab. my anxiety, but I tend to worry less and less.
My SA started when I was about 14 years old. It had it's peak when I was 18 when I developed a severe depression due to my SA. It has luckily gotten better since then. At least I'm not depressed anymore and I don't care so much when I experience panic attacks. Earlier I used to obsess a lot ab. my anxiety, but I tend to worry less and less.
scatmantom
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im 20, had this since i was 10 so half my life. I have made some sort of like for myself, but its still a daily struggle
I just turned 24 and had problems with people since my earliest childhood. Never severe, but always there and enough to make life rather unpleasant. I don't think I will ever get rid of it, because it is so deeply embedded in my personality, but yes I am learning to cope with it as time passes.
As a child or a young boy I knew something was wrong with my social life but I had no control over it, now at least I understand the dynamics of what happens to me.
As a child or a young boy I knew something was wrong with my social life but I had no control over it, now at least I understand the dynamics of what happens to me.
I am 32. I was extremely fearful of going to school and socializing with kids in kindergarten. I managed to eventually do it... but around age 8 it got really bad. I moved to a new city with a new school. I was very fearful of speaking, so much so that an inexperienced teacher thought I needed special ed classes. She went on leave for preganancy, my mother spoke with the new teacher about my 'shyness'-- the new teacher treated me with respect and low and behold I ended up making good grades. I never did make any friends at the new school because the first teacher told all the kids that I was dumb. Ah well, life sucks and we move on. As of now, I believe my SA is getting better--- I have a beutiful fiancee and I am starting to do very well at my uni--- not so much socializing though, but I am beginning to speak more to my fellow students... still in the quick sentences (the hurry up and get this suffering over with approach-- hehe) but I am getting better and having a relatively open-minded girlfriend has boosted my confidence in the speaking area some... I am getting there... slowly but surely.
Danfalc
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Ive always laked social skills all my life well as soon as i started to socialise and got depressed when i was about 11.Covered it up by smoking weed when i was about 14 and other stuff as i got older ... and when i quit when i was 18... cos the weed had been keeping me calm sp hit me really hard.
Im nearly 21 now and although i havnt had it for that long and it does affect me severley.. i can look back and see improvements ive made.
Im nearly 21 now and although i havnt had it for that long and it does affect me severley.. i can look back and see improvements ive made.
hannahd
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I recently turned 26, and I've had it all my life. I've always found it hard making eye contact with people, and the older I get, the more difficult it becomes as there's more pressure on me to conform.
I used to have friends at middle school, but when I became a teenager, I got worse and worse and lost all my friends.
I don't think I will ever get over it, either, so I've just accepted it really, and have built a life for myself that requires minimal human contact.
My mum says I was a difficult baby and wouldn't look into people's eyes. I was also scared of walking and didn't walk until I was 2, which is really late. I think I suffer from generalised fear, as I also have OCD, although only very mild these days.
I used to have friends at middle school, but when I became a teenager, I got worse and worse and lost all my friends.
I don't think I will ever get over it, either, so I've just accepted it really, and have built a life for myself that requires minimal human contact.
My mum says I was a difficult baby and wouldn't look into people's eyes. I was also scared of walking and didn't walk until I was 2, which is really late. I think I suffer from generalised fear, as I also have OCD, although only very mild these days.
I'm 24 and I think started to have SP since 10 (around that if I remember correctly). The amazing thing is that, I never consider myself have SP or any mental problem since recently, I never knew what SP is. And my parents never suspect me having problem cause I wasn't close to them.