Social Anxiety

[hidwell]

How many people with Social Anxiety, feel that life has passed them by ?

 

[wafak]

All?
I constantly feel like everyone is ahead of me.. and I havent been begun.. bc i can't begun until i "fix" myself..
It's an awful feeling..
I was talking to this guy.. idk what he has.. but he has some kind of personality disorder.. practices some form of reclusiveness.. idk if he's AvPD like me or not.. but he was tell me not to be like him.. to go out.. talk to my 'friends' etc.. that I was still young.. and I just feel like I was doom.. that I was just a younger version on him.. that my only problem IS my problem

 

[Dark angel]

Basically I think every person with SA feels that way too. I know I feel that way, I'm relatively young but not that young anymore to be full of doubts and questions about how to do certain things. The worst thing is when you see and now people younger like you that had accomplished more things than you in shorter time. ::
It makes me feel like time is passing by fast without me noticing and even when I want to do something to stop feeling useless and miserable, it seems like I can't. Like i'm destined to be this way always. The weirder part of everything is that sometimes I question myself if I want to change.

 

[Blandy]

im 18 and i always feel like i have wasted my teenage years, i often say to councilors that i wish i could go back in time and re-live my life from age 15, i like to think that if i did my life would be alot better and i would be happy.

 

[MrJones]

I've wasted all my life and I'm probably going to waste the rest of it. I accepted the way I live, though.

You have to try to find what makes you happy and go for it. If a fear is in the way, face it, fight it, and you will feel better.

 

[Section_31]

I feel it has, in some certain areas, but then for some reason it doesnt really bother me.

I try to carve out a small pocket of tranquility to the best of my abilities. That really happened the day i got married.

 

[Prestonator]

For me I would say yes. But i don't dwell on this, i just try to make up for time i've lost. The past few years I have avoided eating out and going to social occasions where alcohol has been present. So I have tried to get over my anxiety of eating out and push myself into these situations more, with being a student its kind of aviodable sometimes. And then I have tried to go out more (As in to clubs) but have just realised that when in fact i thought i had been missing out on this, i havent because going out drinking like that is just not for me. Anyway my answer is yes, but i dont dwell on it really.

 

[Iluv]

Life has not passed it just always goes on but you need to catch up.

 

[CrazyGirl]

oh yeah, greatly so. The worst feeling is seeing much younger people who have accomplished so much more than me whether its relationships, kids, getting ahead job wise and financially. Because of my social anxiety issues, I feel soooo much younger than I actually am.

 

[Fembot]

I wouldn't say that life has pasted me by. But I have had to play catch up in some areas of my life (and I still am at times).