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I have been diagnosied with social phobia recently. But, who can blame me? Dealing with people is like a mine field.
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I have social phobia, too. Maybe we should get together and talk about it sometime...Wait. That's scary. Never mind Posts: 3003 | Registered: Oct 2004
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Not exactly. I got evaluated the other day and this is the conclusion they came to. It is not exactly a problem because if I have to be social, I just do it. Sort of like my fear of subway train tracks and riding the subway anyway. But, I so dislike parties or social situations because they make me so miserable. Especially totally being ignored in them... Still, it is interesting..
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Birds make music too, though, and they don't get drunk, swagger into a Domino's Pizza you happen to be working in, order a pizza, whine about it taking so long only 5 minutes after the orders been entered, urinate on the building because the doors locked (thereby inspiring onlookers to call the cops), and smoke in the lobby with the cop and the manager RIGHT THERE! Posts: 2292 | Registered: Aug 2003
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Pshycology is not a science, so your diagnosis is not a fact. It is mearly a discription with a word attached. If you feel anxious about something, practice it if it is important, if you dither about taking drugs that have who knows what side effects or use it as an excuse to shrivel your social life you are placing yourself at risk to feed drug company profits on the opinion of witch doctors or you are shrinking yourself out of fear.
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I've actually had someone tell me, "I'd rather have my eyes gouged out than speak in front of strangers."
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I'm just socially incompetent. I don't go for jobs that put me in front of customers. I'm much more comfortable in the back room or in a cubicle working with other employees. Some things you just have to accept.
Speaking in public doesn't faze me and I'll do it willingly. However, my willingness doesn't prevent my mind from going blank and my mouth from mumbling idiotic things. I don't connect with audiences very often.
Even here on Hatrack, where I really could be anyone I wanted, I never have much to say that really resonates with the discussion. I'm always off on a tangent. Sometimes it's depressing, sometimes I glory in it.
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