What's the craziest thing you've ever done because of your social anxiety?

[A Many Splendored Thing]

I've run away from home a couple of times and I ditched school as well.

Now I'm taking double the prescription of Prozac and I'm feeling quite bubbly. Last night as I was falling asleep, my head felt tingly, almost like I was being tickled. I wonder why.:question:

 

[Gaucho]

This is sick, but pissing in jars because I was too anxious to go out of the door. mg:

oh man, i feel with you. i have never done it, but i have not been far away.

i haven't been in my dorms kitchen for 1 month now, which means i haven't cooked food for 1month. i have been eating chinese noodles at the train station every day. not too god nutrition.

 

[OCDd]

loosing my appetite, peeing in water bottles so i dont have to leave my room to see strangers, staying in my room when they come over, putting random answers on a test/just guessing when i know im the last one taking the test, even though i know all the correct answers. i think thats it

 

[gustavofring]

oh man, i feel with you. i have never done it, but i have not been far away.

i haven't been in my dorms kitchen for 1 month now, which means i haven't cooked food for 1month. i have been eating chinese noodles at the train station every day. not too god nutrition.

I know what you mean. It's annoying that the kitchen is always occupied with all these people. But you should start cooking veggies again! Maybe cook one afternoon for a whole week or something and then microwave it?
That's how I get by these days. Sometimes I cook with housemates around though, as to not totally avoid them.

As far as the urinating in bottles things goes, I'm somewhat glad to see I'm not the only one. I don't do it anymore though, but there have been times I couldn't stand going out and meeting all these people in my house.

 

[MNM322]

i used to eat lunch alone in the hallway at school.

 

[I'm Not There]

I once re-did a year in uni because I failed the previous one. In the first year I knew 3 people, but the 2nd time I tried it, I was too scared to be surrounded by nothing but strangers. Result: I pretended going to class for an entire year and even made up exam results to my parents. Needless to say I failed again and wasted one full year of my life by doing this. People have never asked me about this gap in my study career when I tell them my age (I'm in college now, I always tell people that I only did one year of uni). This is because I skipped one year in elementary school, so they kind of cancel each other out.

 

[Hastings & Main]

I sat perfectly still on my floor for four (4!) hours because I didn't want my downstairs neighbors to know I was home. I waited til they went out til I moved.......

This SAD really makes us do strange things....

 

[jaim38]

^You're not alone. Several years ago when I lived in a downstairs apartment, there were a bunch of party kids upstairs. I try to make as little noise as possible, even going so far as to tiptoe and not flush the toilet when I pee, so that they don't notice me. Sometimes, they make fun of me for the way I talk and the things that I do. Whenever I had phone calls, I crouch down low and cover my mouth before speaking into the phone. For some reason, they just don't like me.

I'm so glad I don't live in apartments anymore. Ever since I moved back in with my parents, I felt so much relief that I don't have to do those things anymore.

 

[truffleshuffle]

^You're not alone. Several years ago when I lived in a downstairs apartment, there were a bunch of party kids upstairs. I try to make as little noise as possible, even going so far as to tiptoe and not flush the toilet when I pee, so that they don't notice me. Sometimes, they make fun of me for the way I talk and the things that I do. Whenever I had phone calls, I crouch down low and cover my mouth before speaking into the phone. For some reason, they just don't like me.

I'm so glad I don't live in apartments anymore. Ever since I moved back in with my parents, I felt so much relief that I don't have to do those things anymore.

I know how you feel I live on the bottom of my partment building too. The thing is though the person on the bottom of the apartment buildings are not eazy to hear as the people living above you. You can hear everything they do but they barly hear what you do as long as your not super loud or something.

 

[Nanita]

I´ve done many things to avoid people/avoid discomfort :

I have been hiding in bathrooms when I was in school or at jobs.

When I lived in a dorm, I didn´t use the kitchen for about 3 weeks.

I was accepted at a college, on the 1st day I got on a train, walked to the building, couldn´t go inside, just stood outside crying, went back home, never came back.

I had medical tests done, but avoided calling the doctors office to get the results.

I signed up for pre-paid yoga classes, went there once, which meant I wasted the money I had already payed for all the classes that season.

 

[aNOTfox]

Running away from home in the middle of the night to avoid facing school for just one day to collect exam results. I also ate raw meat in the hope of getting food poisoning so I didn't have to go out. This was when my anxiety was pretty bad and would have honestly rather been in hospital than at school.

 

[Graeme1988]

Once I pretended that I had a hospital appointment to go to and left during the first school break of the day, this was during high school - when my anxiety started to get really bad.

 

[aNOTfox]

Its interesting to note that quite a lot of peoples craziest thing happened at school, or because of school. Just wondering, it seems odd that there aren't systems (or effective ones, at least) in place at schools to support sufferers of social anxiety. I mean, school is the ultimate worst thing for a social phobia sufferer to be forced to endure!

 

[jaim38]

Its interesting to note that quite a lot of peoples craziest thing happened at school, or because of school. Just wondering, it seems odd that there aren't systems (or effective ones, at least) in place at schools to support sufferers of social anxiety. I mean, school is the ultimate worst thing for a social phobia sufferer to be forced to endure!

School is filled with kids who have not yet matured so it's not surprising that some of the worst bullyings of our lives come from school. People don't fully mature until their 20s, 30s, or in some cases, maybe never.

 

[Kat]

I guess it's ok to admit this now since I'm out of school but we use to have a thing called hot weather policy and kids were allowed to leave school early if they had a note from their parents to say they could leave school early. My mum usually would write one for me but one time she didn't but I forged a note on her behalf and left early anyway it was a little white lie.

I hid a lot at the library to avoid interaction at school or if the library wasn't open the toilets not a very nice place to hide I have a germ phobia but social phobia still outweighs any other phobia there seems to be more logical reasons for social phobia to be more predominant.

 

[truffleshuffle]

I guess it's ok to admit this now since I'm out of school but we use to have a thing called hot weather policy and kids were allowed to leave school early if they had a note from their parents to say they could leave school early. My mum usually would write one for me but one time she didn't but I forged a note on her behalf and left early anyway it was a little white lie.

I hid a lot at the library to avoid interaction at school or if the library wasn't open the toilets not a very nice place to hide I have a germ phobia but social phobia still outweighs any other phobia there seems to be more logical reasons for social phobia to be more predominant.

That would have been cool to have. The only time we got out early was one time when It rained so hard they thought the school was going to flood. We got out at around 10 am and the rain stopped ten minutes later lol. I had to walk home in rain though since My car at the time was broke down.

 

[Isolated_Writer]

everyday i hide in the back of a classroom at lunch and before school to avoid talking to people

 

[Kat]

=The only time we got out early was one time when It rained so hard they thought the school was going to flood. We got out at around 10 am and the rain stopped ten minutes later lol. I had to walk home in rain though since My car at the time was broke down.

That doesn’t sound too good. I forgot to emphasize I went to a pretty uptight religious school that still utilized corporal punishment as discipline it makes a bit more sense I think as to why it was such a crazy idea. ::

 

[boxingrooster]

attempted to buy a sandwhich at subway. told the cashier i forgot my card in my car. the card wasnt in my car it was at home. drove home never came back. haaha was very embarassing that day but i laugh at it now. me for the win!

 

[RoomBound]

My father, a teacher, usually drove us to school with him. He taught in the same elementary school. When he had to drive a bus (substitute driver), we had to take our assigned bus. There were some big mouth bullies on the bus I had to take, and my brother was out of school with pink eye. So I had him come close to my eye with his pink eye in hopes of getting the contagious problem (amazing what you can get siblings to do when you're the oldest). It worked. I gleefully pointed out my pink eye to my mother, and she reluctantly conceded that I couldn't go to school until it cleared up.