Posted by sweetmarie on April 13, 2001, at 5:17:53
In reply to Re: SOMETHING WORKS, BUT ITS THE WRONG THING » sweetmarie, posted by JahL on April 12, 2001, at 16:39:07
> 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.
Yes, sounds very familiar (esp `mean and moody` bit`. Sadly, I`m a bit of a sucker for this ... )
> 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.
That`s really interesting - the way he`s `painted` is that of a total and utter hard case. He looks like he could eat several people for breakfast and not the kind of person you`d like to meet on a dark night. I wonder how many others are like him (i.e. incarcerated and `fed` stuff that makes the situation worse)? Scary. >
> 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).
Gosh. This really does sound very familiar. He used to scare me, because whilst he looked like he couldn`t harm a flea, he had a hell of a temper on him. I met him during a group therapy course, and for the first 3 weeks he was absolutely convinced that another (male) member of the group was a `plant`, just put there to spy on him. Maybe you`re not THAT bad, but I guess there are similarities.
> This depression business is a right barrel of laughs, isn`t it ??
>
> You said it.`... you don`t see me laughing` as Jarvis Cocker puts it. >
Anna.
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