Have social anxiety?

A little. When I was younger, it was more prominent. Though, as time as gone by, I become more comfortable in social situations

 

I do. I have had it for a long time. And I hate it so much.

 

I have it but it's not as bad as it used to be

 

I didn't have it in the past, then somehow it hit me in my teen years.

So recently i decided to seek professional help. Several visits later, 300mg 5-HP daily and forcing myself to simply not give a f**k about others.

I now consider myself, cured.

That is not to say i don't still feel anxious and occasionally in social environments, but i now see the causes and have a way to battle them.

 

Technically, I do. Like another poster said, I feel it sometimes at the back of my mind. But nothing like a year or so ago when I couldn't even leave the house without having a panic attack. I owe my progress to medication and cognitive behavioural therapy

 

Oh HELL YES! I'm really socially awkward, shy, and am better than what I used to be. I feel really bad and horrible whenever I say something irrelevant, odd, or something that no one will get :S. I hate it. Absolutely hate it.

 

I was diagnosed with social anxiety,

 

I can't tell. I do experience anxiety at social situations, but I think I deal with it well enough that I couldn't have a real disorder. That didn't used to be true, though.

 

The first step to getting over social anxiety is to accept yourself as a shy person. To understand that 90% of the problem is not the social anxiety but your inability to accept yourself and to demand from yourself, that you be some sort of soul of the party. When I accepted that I was a quiet thoughtful person and that nearly everything I had achieved had been because of I'm like how I am. Then I started to get over my social anxiety.

Is "better than I used to be" a good term. No. I am more confident and more in control but that is due to my maturity and experience. Once I understood that I'm a quiet thoughtful person with a lot to give, I was able to speak up when I needed to.

 

I struggled with sa for like 6 years after I turned 11. A coupld of failed suicide attempts. Only in the past few years have I really improved.. And you wouldn't think I struggled with it if you met me today. But it's still there and yes it still affects me. But not as much as it use to.

 

Severely!

 

I had it really prodominant at the begining of the school year but I talked to my doctors and got some med's and i'm doing alot better now.


sorry i suck at spelling

 

I had it, the entire time I was in the public school system I was completely incapable of making friends because of it. Actually I think it's connected to abandonment disorder in my case.

At any rate, in university I was in my first relationship, it was abusive, I lost all my friends. When I ended that relationship it was like a sizable crack appeared in the dam. I was still super anxious to talk with or approach anyone, but I forced myself to do it. Now, I've had lots of people laugh at me when I tell them I'm shy.

 

No, I do not have nor had social anxiety.
A bit of the opposite, though. :lol:

 

its not a contest but ive never met anyone who has it worse than me

 

I've had social anxiety all my life, and am seeing a psychologist for it. Like Kageshiro, I haven't met anyone who has a more severe social anxiety than I do, although that's probably common for people with social anxiety because we're no as likely to meet each other.

I have to give a presentation in front of a 30+ person class in a week and a half, and am anxious just thinking about it.