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Chappy:
Anyone here? or Just me? :P

Dale08:
Googles social anxiety disorder


--- Quote ---Physical symptoms often accompanying social anxiety disorder include excessive blushing, sweating (hyperhidrosis), trembling, palpitations, nausea, and stammering often accompanied with rapid speech
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I guess that includes me. Although I don't have an intense fear of social situations, I just don't really like them. Unless it is with family or friends of course.

Ixarku:
I have a lot of anxiety when I go into new social situations, which means I'm usually shy and don't talk that much to people I don't know.  Heck, sometimes I feel anxiety just when I have to drive somewhere I've never been to before.  But I don't experience enough anxiety that it actually impairs my ability to function.

Soryon:

--- Quote from: Ixarku on August 27, 2011, 02:33:10 PM ---I have a lot of anxiety when I go into new social situations, which means I'm usually shy and don't talk that much to people I don't know.

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This, but it fades quickly once I feel well enough acquainted. Starting school or a new job is always rough on me for the first week or two. This is, however, is generally only in group situations. I am a strong speaker one on one and dont really get nervous in those situations.

I had it much worse when I was younger. During middle school and high school, I was pretty anti-social aside from my circle of friends. People always thought I hated everybody or something, but I was really it was just the anxiety of talking with people I did not know well. Luckily, I more or less got over it as I grew older. You kinda have to or you wont be able to function in the situations that you will encounter as you grow up.

surdumil:
I had this before a clinical name was attached to it.
I experienced it from about age 10 to about age 38.
It did impair my ability to function in situations where I was had to talk to strangers, and especially a group of strangers.
It impaired my ability to contribute to meetings at work, and to work well with co-workers.
I avoided social gatherings at all costs, and avoided people at gatherings that I could not avoid.

I joined Toastmasters and that fixed the problem after a few years.
For me, that was the miracle cure.

I'm still quite shy, mind you, and I still feel anxiety at times, but now I have the confidence and the mental tools to make the anxiety work for me instead of against me.
Now I often seek out those who are trying to fade away from the crowd, strike up conversation, and try to make them feel more at ease.
Speak to a crowd of strangers?  Take center stage?  No problem now.

Toastmasters is an incredibly cheap and effective treatment for this condition.
I recommend it highly.

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