Been suffering from social anxiety for years, it's nice to find a community like this

[Allegro]

Hello!


Coming across this forum and reading what others are experiencing has encouraged me to sign up. I've been suffering from anxiety almost all my life and it's only been getting worse as the years go by. I've always been shy, but it developed into anxiety as I got older. At first I didn't even understand what was wrong with me.


I find myself unable to leave my home at this point and, although embarrassing to admit, this has been going on for 6 years now. I've only left my home a small handful of times and as a result I've missed out on my young adult life because I've allowed my anxiety to control my life entirely. It's really a terrible feeling, but at the same time to find a community like this is very reassuring and motivates me to get better.

 

[pwarbi]

I said before in my introductory post the same thing, and this is the first time that I've been on a forum that deals with anxiety as well, in fact, I didn't even know they existed until I came here. I've been dealing with anxiety for a number of years, some days are worse than others, and like you, at first I didn't know what was wrong with me and I was scared to actually tell anybody how I was feeling in case I was made to look stupid.


Just by posting on the forum though, I'm already starting to see that there are a lot of people in the same boat as me, and even though I might think i'm the only one going through this, just by seeing that I'm not alone makes me able to deal with my feeling a lot more confidently and as I'm sure you know all too well, confidence or lack of it is a big thing when it comes to anxiety.