Posted by FluffMama on December 1, 2010, at 2:23:28
In reply to This is what a social phobic person feels-example, posted by tepi on November 30, 2010, at 22:42:49
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> I just read this message in other board. This guys described a part of my problem very well. This is just one of the many things we people like me and him suffer.
> It seems he found a med to avoid this hell
> Read.....
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> "I saw this guy walking on the street (about six meters away), and he reminded me of someone I know as a friend. Before this friday´s events it would have been extremely distressing to just look at him (even if sure about that it was my friend walking there). He looked at me and I looked at him in a curious way.
> Mind: Hi, who are you? Do I know you? No, probably not... oh why bother. I hope you´re having a good time. (We did not verbally interact.)
> Suddenly he stops to greet and share a hug with a woman (what I suppose to be his girlfriend). I feel happy for them and know that they like being in each others company. It all looks very nice and beautiful. Love, friendship or whatever it might have been.
> I remembered how I had felt about this kind of scenario before. Don´t look at me! Is it him? I can´t look at him... Oh no he has seen me... Was it my "friend"? Sh*t, what if it was? Dammit, now I must go and talk to him and act nice.... Those kind of strange things would occur. Negative beliefs in that situation that would have been greatly reduced, had a cigarette been smoked just about then.
> Wow... Life really begins now
> """"I always feel badly that when another human being approaches me - like walking opposite each other on an exercise path or track, my body completely tenses up and I want to scream! I stop breathing, and my body feels weird, and I don't know whether to make eye contact or not, and I breathe a sigh of relief when they pass by. I avoid people in the grocery store and dread seeing someone I know. So weird. What med did this guy find to help him? LOL! That's what I want to know.
poster:FluffMama
thread:972018
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20101117/msgs/972037.html