08/24/2006 Archived Entry: "Socially Anxious"
GAF has had a lot of threads on social anxiety lately. It’s basically when you feel anxious around other people. As you might expect from a hardcore gaming forum, there are a lot of GAFers who suffer from this particular anxiety. I have my share of social anxiety, but some of the folks on GAF bring have it much worse. Some don’t have friends, never had significant others, or are completely lost around other people.
For a long time, and still today (to a lesser degree), I would hate having to hang out in large groups of people. Large meaning anything probably more than 5. But worst of all though, is going out to meet a group of people where you only know 1 or two of those involved. It just causes this sort of stress where you’d rather shut down, stay home and not do anything rather than having to face a dozen strangers. There used to be a time when I would totally do the “err, I don’t feel like it anymore” or “I don’t feel well” routine whenever the time came to be in a situation like that. The truth is that I’d rather be in a room with a hundred people I know than one with 1 person I know and 5 that I don’t.
For the most part, if I ever hung out with you and a bunch of your friends, you should know that I honestly had to convince myself to go through with it. I eventually got over it though. It involved a lot of self-badgering, just sucking it up, and realizing that it’s never as bad as you think it’s going to be.
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