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Post by patm3300 on Dec 9, 2005 18:59:54 GMT -5
hello i am very shy. i am also very new to this post. the good thing is that i am not shy over the internet, which is going to help me get a lot out of these forums. i dont have any friends because of my shyness and i find it very hard to have a social conversation with anybody outside my close family. are there are other people that can relate to me here. the only social connections that i have outside of my family are my neighbors which i find to be pretty sad, but at least i still have them i think. well i have not been shy for as long as i can remember as i think most people have. i can remember a time back in preschool when i was more of an extrovert and i envy that time. i was quite the little trouble maker and there was one time I remember in which I poured glue all over a kids art project in preschool and began singing a song about it. ever since then i have been shy and not talked a lot though. i, probably like a lot of other people, view my shyness as a very negative thing. it was not until recently that i was able to come into terms with my shyness. in addition to being shy i think that i also have a moderate case of social anxiety disorder as well as depression and i take prozac and risperdal and the anti-anxiety medication risperdal. well i hope that there are some people out there that can relate to me and i look forward to hearing your replies.
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Post by patm3300 on Dec 9, 2005 23:15:11 GMT -5
just bumpin this up because there are no responses yet lol...
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Post by GreenFerret on Dec 10, 2005 2:11:46 GMT -5
Haha, WOW you posted a lot in a short time! That's great you're not at all shy on message boards. I still am sometimes--thread-starting scares me! I was actually kind of a wise-ass kid myself, up to kindrgarten. I remember the first day of the rest of my life, as they say--at the kindergarten orientation, feeling weird because of how tight-lipped and self-conscious I suddenly felt. Are shyness and social anxiety not just part of the same thing for you? I've always just considered myself "shy" (since I came to accept the term), but not socially anxious, but I don't really have grounds for sticking to that or not, heh heh. I forgot to say, welcome welcome welcome! ;D
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Post by patm3300 on Dec 10, 2005 2:21:55 GMT -5
Haha, WOW you posted a lot in a short time! That's great you're not at all shy on message boards. I still am sometimes--thread-starting scares me! I was actually kind of a wise-ass kid myself, up to kindrgarten. I remember the first day of the rest of my life, as they say--at the kindergarten orientation, feeling weird because of how tight-lipped and self-conscious I suddenly felt. Are shyness and social anxiety not just part of the same thing for you? I've always just considered myself "shy" (since I came to accept the term), but not socially anxious, but I don't really have grounds for sticking to that or not, heh heh. I forgot to say, welcome welcome welcome! ;D thanks for the reply i am glad that there are some other people out there that can relate to me. shyness and social anxiety are really not the same thing. social anxiety is more where you fear what others think of you more i think. it is a mild difference but it is there i think.
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Post by lonelyheart on Dec 10, 2005 7:28:10 GMT -5
Hi Pat(m3300), living with SA and shyness can be tough but we have to try our hardest to deal with it.
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Post by gSteve on Dec 10, 2005 13:19:44 GMT -5
Hello, welcome to Shy United
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Post by patm3300 on Dec 11, 2005 18:35:34 GMT -5
thank you for all the great welcomes everybody. i am glad to see that you are all nice people here. i look forward to making some great posts.
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