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What kind of occasion brought Social Anxiety Disorder on?

25 June 2010 5 Comments
Torie asked:


I’m taking a psychology course, and for a project I am to take a survey.
For it I chose Social Anxiety. I’d like to ask people with this disorder what type of occasion or childhood experience brought it on?
Thanks a bunch!

5 Comments »

  • A A said:

    I really don’t know – it’s part of my personality
    or physche – I was born that way…

  • jenisisgrafix said:

    my first experience was at a rave, i was surrounded by about 3000 people and lost my mind. couldn’t breathe properly, blacked out, fell down and have has panic attacks ever since. the social anxiety came after my first panic attack.

  • Possum Annie said:

    I started having panic attacks at school when I was 12, but as far back as I can remember there were always hints that I would someday struggle with social anxiety. I believe it arose from my personality at the time (shy, nervous, low self-esteem, self-conscious).

  • danielle n said:

    there can be many many reasons why a person will get social anxiety.
    for me it started off in my childhood…
    when i was made fun of for being a loner.
    i was a loner because i was ugly.
    i am very self conscious now and i feel i will always be.
    now that I’m in high school people try to approach me and talk to me but i always just look somewhere else when they are trying to talk to me or i say “i gotta go” and leave really fast.
    when this happens my heart beats really fast and i feel my face turning hot and i get shaky and start panicking.
    its really hard for anyone who has this disorder.
    i know i have it for sure… no ones told me, i’ve never wanted to talk to anybody about it, i dont want to talk to anybody about it….
    this feeling makes me crazy inside like idk what to do and i have noone and nowhere to go.
    i ask myself why this is happening to me and its all my fault.
    i tell myself im crazy and i think i am. one day I’m scared i’m going to explode and hurt somebody.
    about a year ago i already did try to do something about it.
    i tried to kill myself and i did not succeed. i took 48 pills that i thought were sleeping pills but they weren’t.
    i’m 15 now and im stupid so please dont think im immature and i dont know what im doing. i know what im doing and whats happening but i cant help it. i wish i could. i wish i could get help but idk how.
    ok thats it.

  • Xrili A said:

    Some people had overbearing authority figures in their lives that told them to be perfect or unacceptable; some were abused and have low self-esteem, some have been picked on in school, others may have deformities…others have learn through experience that people are dangerous and can’t be trusted.

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