Social Anxiety Disorder is a Serious Condition

For people who suffer with Social Anxiety Disorder, its no laughing matter, says HealthyPlace.com Medical Director, Dr. Harry Croft.

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• SAD
• social phobia
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• shyness
• social withdrawl
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• harry croft

[dolfan6132]

Idk how anyone deals with this. All I wanna do is somehow inject SAD into someone else that has no problem being normal and see how they handle it.

[ilkldme]

It can seriously ruin your life.

[alexandrataylor21]

great to know. this is just fucking great.

[goyitoolguin]

Because of this Im pretty sure I'm gonna be like those 40 year old nerds that live with their parents, no life, no job, no friends. I'm only 16 but I'm pretty sure thats gonna be my life because of a combination of social phobia and stuttering

[Nicro327]

SAD is the equivelant to prison

[MrCajole]

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[MrCajole]

@offwithurhead you mustn't despair and withdraw from life if you've experienced a setback: for that 1 time out of 10 that you gained self-knowledge its worth the 9 time falling on your butt. you're a sensitive person, and its these kind of people that the world needs, not the ones that point fingers and smell the weak and insecure like vultures.

[offwithurhead]

@offwithurhead It ruins my life and I have no friends because of it but I know there are people with SAD who have it hell of a lot worse than me so I don't want to sound too whiny. Sorry if I do sound too whiny or am sharing too much.

[offwithurhead]

@offwithurhead I'm constantly getting frustrated with myself for not being able to do so many things that other people do everyday but I don't want to run away from my problems anymore, I want to keep going cause everything I could think of doing in the future will require me to work with people. I must get over this somehow.

[offwithurhead]

@MrCajole It's like a part of me would like to maybe make a friend but the rest of me knows the first day I'll be sitting in the corner and picking my acne and my thumbs till they bleed out of fear. But I'm working on it and I've experienced improvement(let's just say I can actually speak to a person 1 on 1 with some eye contact if I've known them for some time)it used to be a lot worse.(continued)

[MrCajole]

@ChillpointNews you were probably the only sane person that went into that mall that day. sounds unreasonable, but its very likely true.

[MrCajole]

@offwithurhead my last two years of school were a horror too...i counted the days till this shit was over, always hoping not to be in the spotlight and dodging every possible class presentation ;-)...i hope you find something that you love to do, for which you have passion for, so that all these bad images in your head disappear. fight through the last years of school (or quit it if it becomes unbearable) and then work on urself.