how old r u guys and how long have u hade SA???
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Harleyq
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21 and I've had SA...probably since I started kindergarten or 1st grade...maybe even before. I'm not really sure at what point I went from being shy to being socially anxious. But I know I've had SA for the majority of my life.
I didn't realize it til I was about 16, though.
I didn't realize it til I was about 16, though.
I'm 24, and I've had SA for about 8 years. I was in Grade 9 when I had my first panic attack. I'd been getting picked on a lot by my friends about "conforming," which was really just a defense mechanism to stop a larger group of more violent classmates from picking on me. I started to mimic the things they did and parrot their ideas, and it earned me acceptance from them, but in the process I ended up pushing some of my good friends away.
One day, a good friend started pushing me, accusing me of acting "Weird" in front of a good deal of my classmates. It was one of very few times in my life that someone who I valued and considered to be a friend started to lash out at me, and this time ended up being one too many. Rather than fighting back or trying to explain myself, I froze up, started to hyperventilate, and then went into an inexplicable crying fit. Things got awkward with my friends after that, but they were at least understanding about it. It reminded me of who my real friends were.
One day, a good friend started pushing me, accusing me of acting "Weird" in front of a good deal of my classmates. It was one of very few times in my life that someone who I valued and considered to be a friend started to lash out at me, and this time ended up being one too many. Rather than fighting back or trying to explain myself, I froze up, started to hyperventilate, and then went into an inexplicable crying fit. Things got awkward with my friends after that, but they were at least understanding about it. It reminded me of who my real friends were.
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I was always a shyer kid but never to anxious.
It started for me when I and my family moved to a different country. That's when
my blushing started. I remember it happening to me rarely but when we moved it
intensified and became a social problem and my SA/SP started and gradually got worse.
I have had two panic attacks over the last year (my first ones) but I think that they
were related more to stress and less SA/SP.
I am now 28 and this was 17 years ago.
It started for me when I and my family moved to a different country. That's when
my blushing started. I remember it happening to me rarely but when we moved it
intensified and became a social problem and my SA/SP started and gradually got worse.
I have had two panic attacks over the last year (my first ones) but I think that they
were related more to stress and less SA/SP.
I am now 28 and this was 17 years ago.
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I'm 30, and I've probably had SP since I was around 10... maybe a little sooner, maybe slightly later. I didn't realize it until I was diagnosed at 20, and I only recently gave it much thought because up until a few years ago depression was my biggest issue.
this_portrait
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I'm 20, and although I know I've had SA since I was a kid, I was only diagnosed with it when I was 19, back in about February.
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agoraphobickatie
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i'm 21 and i've had some form of panic/anxiety disorder since about first grade.. i remember going to school with a heart monitor on for a few weeks because i had been having chest pains-- they determined i was having panic attacks. so i've struggled with anxiety and panic attacks all through school but i lived a normal life, i had high school friends and went to parties and football games, went to college and all that jazz.. all of a sudden at the beginning of May this year, i was in walmart (i know, right!) and suddenly had an intense fear of being there around other people, i thought i was about to puke all over myself, i rushed to check my items at the u-scan and had to sit in my car and recover in the parking lot before i could make it home, haha... since then i've been agoraphobic and i quit my job and moved back home, i feel intense anxiety being in public and am afraid of situations out of my control..
richi1173
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Im 19. I've been shy all my life but I didn't have SA until I was in 5th Grade when my family moved to the US. I went through some tough times in 7th Grade (who didn't right?) with constant bullying and thats when it really got severe. Didn't have any good friends until the end of 10th grade. Had my first severe panic attack at the end of 11th Grade and had agoraphobia ever since. By the end of my first semester of university I had lost all of my friends and become a recluse. Im a sophomore now. FML
dooby-duck
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Well I'm 29. I've had shyness, anxiety and nervousness issues for all of my life. I think the social anxiety started sometime around 16 and slowly got worse from then onwards.
Lonelykitsune
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its gotten worse since secondary school when my frind wnt to a different school,i was always shy,but now its out of my control
i'm 16 and though i've been shy all my life, the SA started when i was about 13/14. i didn't know what it was and it was actually my aunt who after i explained to her how i felt in public/social situations, told me that i probably had an anxiety disorder. i googled it, found out about SA and yep, totally me. i've only just been officially diagnosed by a psychiatrist a couple of weeks ago though.
