Ruby Wax Suffered with Depression. Steve Light Suffered with Social Anxiety Disorder.

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I can say that from personal experience, I had whats known as social anxiety all of my life, growing up painfully shy and then worsening in my late teens and early 20s. I felt like I didnt have a life at the time, it was near impossible for me to go into a job agency to look for work, I would stand outside looking through to see what the people looked like, my logic at the time was looking for safe people to speak to and the mostly good-looking female recruitment consultants were unsafe and terrifying for me.

I found my self being totally jumbled talking over the phone, trying to get my point across but feeling totally restricted and then of course beating myself up mentally afterwards.

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