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Re: REAL SA PENPALS ONLY

Posted By: Melissa <mhigginbotham3@hotmail.vom>
Date: 20 July 2009, at 1:09 a.m.

In Response To: REAL SA PENPALS ONLY (SA)

I hope you meam social anxiety.... I have it. It's quite debilitating and causes trouble in every aspect of my life. I'm 29 and married with five children. My husband is the only friend or aquaintance I have; and that's not much considering he can be an abusuve jerk at times. I push away or alienate everyone in my life because I have no idea how to be sociable at all. I cannot make small talk, I cannot look people in the eyes and any situation in which I have to speak in front of others causes me to literally become physically ill. I am very depressed as well, so I feel that any contribution that I would make in a frienship/conversation/situation would just be so pathetic and depressing to others that why the Hell should I bother? This has cost me a BA that I would have had I not dropped out due to the requisite speech course I had to take, it's making my marriage even worse because I do not want to leave the house (with my outgoing people-loving husband), and most serious of all I am afraid of what it will do to my kids. I don't want them to live like this. They need me to be a role model of strength, good self image and healthy relationships; and I am none of those things. I've been to so many psychologists and councelors and on so many meds, but nothing works... perhaps I am just this way.

Messages in This Thread

• REAL SA PENPALS ONLY (views: 46)
  SA -- 7 April 2009, at 11:26 p.m.
  • Re: REAL SA PENPALS ONLY (views: 56)
    Melissa -- 20 July 2009, at 1:09 a.m.
    • Re: REAL SA PENPALS ONLY (views: 60)
      AnAussie85 -- 11 August 2009, at 4:26 a.m.

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