Not like everyone else.

[Norseman]

Hi.

I created an account here a while back, but this will be my first post here.

I am a 25 year old male living in a small city in Norway.
I've been suffering from social phobia since the age of twelve, but I first learned the correct term when I was about 14 from a television programme.

Social phobia has ruined my life.
I couldn't concentrate well in school, so my grades were lousy.
I sought the quickest way of getting through it, and so I am stuck in a job that I have come to absolutely hate.

The few friends I have left after school to live elsewhere and I have become incredibly secluded, the only time I go out is for work or to buy food and liquor.
The liquor comes to good use on nights like this when I feel particularly sorry for myself.

I'm considering going back to school but, my self-confidence just gets worse each passing day.

My biggest fear is that life will stay this way, growing old being lonely and bitter.

 

[Norseman]

Thanks.

Thanks Paul.
I'd love to chat.
I have added you on AIM.

 

[elProscrito]

I did EXCELLENT in school, though...all the way through college (I graduated from St. John's University last year with high honors). But again, all I did was bury myself in books and I didn't have any friends.

yep, i did the same thing. but books and honors aren't a good substitute for friends...

 

[Spearmint]

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[JaneDoe]

weird coincidence

I have the same thing you guys have, only what I have is a beyond extreme self-imposed reclusion called hikikomori. My high-school principal has said that he had never seen anybody skipping school like me in his entire twenty something career. I dropped out of school when I was 16 and from that day it was game over for my life. I chose for my life to just stop.

@ NewYawker83
I was searching for information about Morrissey and his own case of social phobia and this discussion was like the third result I got. And I'm a bit stunned to see there's actually a website for people like us. And you talking about Morrissey, a singer I've just discovered a like a week ago. I'm 20my and I had never heard of him, but now that I have heard his haunting songs they will not leave me be. It might sound incredible but I'm already hooked on The Smiths' cd Meat Is Murder. I registered so I could tell you this.