Hi Sarah
Some good points there.
I'm still laughing at that one.<b id="quote">quote:</b id="quote"><table border="0" id="quote"><tr id="quote"><td class="quote" id="quote">The first thing that struck me (not sure if this is at all relevant) is that for people who suffer from social anxiety, you sure have LOADS to say. Does this mean anything?? Not sure..</td id="quote"></tr id="quote"></table id="quote">
It is a good point though. As I've been looking through all this, I've found that many people who suffer from SA are big thinkers. I'm not sure exactly how many people fit into that categopry though, I shall have to look into it some more. It stands to reason that if we don't socially interact as we would like to, or we put up this shield of living in our own minds, then we are going to have a lot of thought processes going on in there. Not necesarilly compulsory to SA I wouldn't have thought, but likely. But if we've got all this thought locked up, then I guess it's going to be released somewhere eventually (sorry guys ).
I'm sure I had something else to say about that, but I forget, like I said before, I overslept today so I'm not too sharp at the mo.
I'm thinking about this one...<b id="quote">quote:</b id="quote"><table border="0" id="quote"><tr id="quote"><td class="quote" id="quote">Mico - you say that when you are out in public, you feel like you are being watched. I think that we ALL feel that, at least I do (**** - does that mean I DO suffer from social anxiety??) We are all scared of whether we are saying, doing, wearing the right things, etc. It's the way of the world today. I think the only difference between people is that some of us know how to deal with it/ignore it and others seem to let it get to them a lot more...but I do think that's it's something we all suffer from..</td id="quote"></tr id="quote"></table id="quote">
Using anxiety as an example, everyone has anxiety. Everyone feels the effects of it on a daily basis, the positive and the negative. Yet there is only a small proportion (us) who are actually labelled with having anxiety as an ilness. Again, you could go deep into this one (I could go deep into a conversation about the flavour of pot noodles!) but I'm not on the ball today so I won't. But I'm sure you see what I'm getting at. It's the exact same thing whether you're talking about anxiety or self consciousness. What the exact difference is, such as how you deal with it, etc, is where it goes deeper, that could be debated. The main difference is the severity I think, same with anxiety. When I go out, I have this feeling constantly, it doesn't fade, it doesn't leave me, it's always there. If anyone wants to take that debate up then please do, but I'm going to leave it for now (although I may well continue it when my brain is fully functioning again).
As for confidence, I believe it can be built up too. Await the next post [8D]
Thanks
mico