Posted by sfy on February 18, 2005, at 11:36:22
In reply to Re: Social Anxiety HELP-Ted, posted by sabre on February 18, 2005, at 2:35:31
> Hello Ted,
> I'm surprised. I just assumed all social phobes felt the sympathetic symptoms.
>
> I thought the avoidance was about escaping the both the mental and physical symptoms and then the depression (dark mind?) followed the frustration, inadequacies, fatigue, loneliness etc
>
> How does everyone else experience it? Does anyone else not feel the physical panic?
>
> As I asked Michael in an earlier post do soc. phobes belong to discrete gps or are they spread out on a spectrum?
>
> sabreI have very few, if any, physical symptoms from my SA. At most, I might get a bit of racing heart and some butterflies in my stomach but nothing approaching panic. (In fact, I've only had one panic attack in my life and it was only barely SA-related.)
My lifelong SA is based primarily on sheer avoidance and my lack of comfort/knowledge/experience/finesse in social situations (particularly one-on-one). I avoid because it's easier than facing the uncertainty and doubt that fill my head in such situations.
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