Posted by JahL on April 12, 2001, at 16:39:07
In reply to Re: SOMETHING WORKS, BUT ITS THE WRONG THING » JahL, posted by sweetmarie on April 12, 2001, at 10:48:27
> > Your description fits that of someone I used to know (my ex-boyfriend), although I don`t think he called it `social phobia`. He would become convinced that people (on the bus, on the train, in the street - even his best friends and me) were talking about him, judging him and planned to do him some kind of harm - not necessarily physical harm, but have a go at him in some way.I don't really think of it as social phobia either; nobody wld guess I have it; people just see me as kinda mean & moody.
Being a Brit I'm sure you're aware of our most famous convict, Charles Bronson. After years of knocking both civilians & screws out, & of the authorities pumping him full of APs, turns out he's less sociopathic than socially phobic! He's spent his life convinced others are taunting & laughing @ him.
I think it's a little different for us guys. Like yr ex., when I come across fellas my own age, I anticipate *highly* confrontational situations (since I'm not the sort to back down, & can handle myself). Fortunately it almost never comes to that but this doesn't stop my paranoid mind from imagining it will (& that others are provoking me).
> > This depression business is a right barrel of laughs, isn`t it ??
You said it.
J.
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