man i'm totally whacked

[SaveMe]

heres what i go through.... when im in the car i always feel like the people driving in front of me and in back of me are watching my every move. My house is across the street from a business and everytime i walk outside i think people are watching me from the windows. When i get nervous and smile my cheeks like tremble, visibly i might add. For some reason i think people think i'm gay... even though i know i'm 100% not. When im in a room with people i feel like theres an elephant in the room but theres really no situation there. Forget about waiting in line or something.. what the shit should i do about this crap?

 

[maggie]

heres what i go through.... when im in the car i always feel like the people driving in front of me and in back of me are watching my every move. My house is across the street from a business and everytime i walk outside i think people are watching me from the windows. When i get nervous and smile my cheeks like tremble, visibly i might add. For some reason i think people think i'm gay... even though i know i'm 100% not. When im in a room with people i feel like theres an elephant in the room but theres really no situation there. Forget about waiting in line or something.. what the shit should i do about this crap?

hey saveme....seriously, i don't think you're totally whacked :!: ..i think it sounds like you suffer from anxiety like we all do on this site...some just suffer different symptoms than others...the stuff you describe that happens to you...sounds a lot like me..and probably lots of us...there is a ton of advice and support on this site..so, hopefully you can read some posts that will benefit you....and, at the very least, we can all relate to you and know what you're going through :wink:

 

[logchuck]

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Omg I think people think I am gay too! but I am striaght!

Hey I am currently getting over these problems. At one point I couldn't stand still at a red light because I thought people were staring at me. I have come a long way since then.

The best thing to do is go around and look for quality information on the web. Then stick to it til you get cured.

 

[Shonen_Yo]

I can relate to that.

 

[Jack-B]

Saveme,

If you believe these things, they will be true for you. If you believe things to exist as they appear when your mind is experiencing anxiety, you will experience a distorted paranoid world.

So, every time you get these thoughts, you should dis believe them in the following way:

"I cannot trust these thoughts whilst i am anxious because they make me believe things that are not real which only causes me to panic, in my own space right now, everything is fine, no one is bothering me, my anxiety is creating this feeling so i shall dis believe it untill it fades away"

Or something like that.

Jack

 

[Dysphoria]

I'm the same. I don't like to go outside. I don't want to walk or run or cars to go by and see me or people to look out of houses at me. I look out the window at people, so I know they do it too, right? That is my justification. If I'm in a store and somebody goes by outside, I'll be looking at them. So like you I assume that everybody else is into my business too. I have a serious staring/smiling nervously problem. People have called me out on it. My cat disappeared and it broke my heart. It was more than a month ago and I still haven't had the courage to go to the store and make copies and put signs up, much less ask the neighbors. I only go out at night to look for her, mostly. This has happened to me with two different cats. I feel like shit.
I won't drive anywhere without makeup and feeling fresh, even if I'm never going to get out of the car. I'm afraid it will break down on the freeway and people will be going by thinking "Omg she's so fat and tacky" or something. Everywhere I go I'm afraid I will bump into somebody I know.

See I'm worse off than you.

 

[LemonKiss]

Do you really see an elephant? Call me wacky, but that is cool.

It's so shocking for me to read posts like this. It's like, no way, I'm not alone.

For me, I'm scared to walk the dog because I think I'll be kidnapped and raped. [/i]