09-21-2014, 04:33 PM
I'm sorry to hear that, too. I’m also in that situation myself fairly regularly and it's really not a nice place to find yourself in. I don't have any real friends as such. I haven't seen my 'best' friend face to face for around eight years now, for example. All I have is my family, really. I can't really say I can rely upon work colleagues as I don't feel entirely comfortable around most of them.
I tend to find myself feeling okay for a few weeks and then have another few weeks where I feel as though I want to either scream or curl up in a corner and cry. I believe I do have a genuine social anxiety problem but the doctors either don't care or simply give you a course of anti-depressants. To be fair, the latter do work during the time you're taking them. Give yourself three or four months off them however and the same old symptoms crop up once again. In my case, repeat this cycle three times over in the last four years (so far...). Complain more to the doctors and they want to put you on a course of CBT. However when you go to the initial interview/screening for that before they officially put you on the course, it turns out that what it involves is actually what causes a lot of your problems in the first place. In short, a classic "there's a fire...now go and walk into it" situation. No thanks.
If you ever find the solution, please do let me know! I've spent several years searching for the answer with no luck so far.
All the best.
I tend to find myself feeling okay for a few weeks and then have another few weeks where I feel as though I want to either scream or curl up in a corner and cry. I believe I do have a genuine social anxiety problem but the doctors either don't care or simply give you a course of anti-depressants. To be fair, the latter do work during the time you're taking them. Give yourself three or four months off them however and the same old symptoms crop up once again. In my case, repeat this cycle three times over in the last four years (so far...). Complain more to the doctors and they want to put you on a course of CBT. However when you go to the initial interview/screening for that before they officially put you on the course, it turns out that what it involves is actually what causes a lot of your problems in the first place. In short, a classic "there's a fire...now go and walk into it" situation. No thanks.
If you ever find the solution, please do let me know! I've spent several years searching for the answer with no luck so far.
All the best.