Maddie @ 24/10/2017 17:58

Curtis needs the D

Highly inappropriate Maddie

My bad. I'll try to be less crass.

Wikey @ 24/10/2017 11:23

I remember in school I literally couldn't walk from one end of the classroom without feeling like all eyes were on me. I hated it when the teacher asked me questions. I was incapable of making phone calls, and talking to strangers was impossible. In College I studied music, and when the time came for the end of year performance in front of a live crowd, I pulled out all the stops to get myself out of it, even thought it should have resulted in an automatic fail for the course. I had to see the college counselor over that actually (: I ended up getting talked into doing the performance in the end, but it took a lot of convincing, and I may have had a few whiskeys before hand to help me out. (The show wasn't good either, I was shaking horribly throughout and my guitar playing was shit) One of the reasons I dropped out of Uni was that I couldn't stand a particular lesson I had to attend which involved speaking in a group. Probably a bigger factor than I'd like to admit in fact (still glad I dropped out tho). Maybe I had a disorder, maybe not. I certainly didn't seem to share these problems with many other kids my age.

Quite honestly Wikey, my therapist flat out told me that my medication will HELP suppress my anxiety to a certain degree but the only real cure is for me to tackle it myself and that the sessions with him and letting out all the stuff I bottled up (and besides Footsies, a very select few friends and Shadow! -- I never opened up to anybody about it for years) would be a good first step. But just popping a pill does not magically fix social anxiety, absolutely not. Personal experiences need to help get rid of those terrible mental blocks. Performing in front of a live crowd would definitely do that.

im so glad i created the new hit thread

I just thought of something while I was reading someone else's post. Sometimes at work, if I have to make a phone call (even work-related ones), I'll try to wait until my desk neighbours are either on the phone themselves or gone from their desks, or there's a lot of noise happening before I pick up the phone, just so there's less of a chance that people will be listening to how I talk on the phone. It's seems silly. And if nobody else is in the room, I'd be able to handle the conversation 150 times better.

Same.

I don't like talking with other people around at all. If I'm on the phone with someone I do not want any other people around me. I go to the garage to talk to people on the phone, true story.

Unless it's really shitty out I almost always walk outside when I want to make a phone call at work (:

I just hate talking on the phone in general tho. I do way better with in-person/text

I usually go somewhere else to make calls if people are around. Usually a parking lot or a non-profit crowded corner of a cafeteria or something. I don't want people being able to snoop

I would if I could. But they're desk phones with phone jacks that can't go for walks. :P

I leave the room to talk on the phone just because it's common courtesy? Unless it's a big office/cubicle situation.

You should all start making everyone ELSE leave the room/office when you use the phone. STAND YOUR GROUND!

Christian @ 24/10/2017 19:36

I just thought of something while I was reading someone else's post. Sometimes at work, if I have to make a phone call (even work-related ones), I'll try to wait until my desk neighbours are either on the phone themselves or gone from their desks, or there's a lot of noise happening before I pick up the phone, just so there's less of a chance that people will be listening to how I talk on the phone. It's seems silly. And if nobody else is in the room, I'd be able to handle the conversation 150 times better.

I have a cordless headset, so I just get up and wander around when I'm on the phone, then try to find somewhere that I won't bother people. But that's because I can be loud, not because of social anxiety.

I've been diagnosed with a great attitude and a killer set of knockers

Tim @ 24/10/2017 17:55

Did you know we all have a vitamin d deficiency. Unless you're taking supplements. Or you hang out in the sun every day. Something like twenty minutes of pure sun exposure a day is required without supplements.

20min in the sun is hanging out all day?