drinking-tea-at-midnight:

handwrittentruth:

mary-batman:

Social anxiety isn’t “omg I hate people lol I wish I was sleeping and watching netflix!” It’s “I want desperately to be able to hang out with people but I hate the feeling of sheer panic and fear I get around them so I don’t / can’t and it eats away at me every day so I end up just staying home and say I’m sleeping or watching something”

this needs to be more well known.

that and the constant feeling of “Should I talk to them?  No they don’t want me to.” and “they haven’t responded in a while, should I say something else?  No, they’re busy, they’ll respond when ready, they don’t want me bugging them.” to the point where social interaction only feels safe if someone else initiates it, but the people we talk to have the same problem, so eventually they stop talking.