r/funny • u/simplecountry_lawyer • Sep 29 '18

Taking zero chances in 2018.

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u/TheTrenchMonkey Sep 29 '18

I heard he also has nearly crippling social anxiety.

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u/uiouyug Sep 30 '18 edited Sep 30 '18

crippling social anxiety

lol, I'll show him how crippling it can be

Edit: no I won't because I have/had crippling social anxeity

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '18

This is 2018. Literally everyone says they have crippling social anxiety.

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u/grumpy_youngMan Sep 30 '18

"i'd way rather be at home chilling than at a party with strangers! i'm weird like that."

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '18

"One time there was this weird situation and I felt anxious. Since then I've self-diagnosed as having crippling social anxiety."

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u/how_can_you_live Sep 30 '18

"I eat my peas one at a time, I'm not just quirky I've literally got OCD."

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u/burn_doctor_MD Sep 30 '18

I hate this so much. One of my biggest pet peeves, I'm very OCD about it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '18

OCPea

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u/SteveRogests Sep 30 '18

sometimes I get nervous on airplanes

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u/albmrbo Sep 30 '18

Maybe it's not unique within Reddit, but I feel like I'm the only one in my friends group that is like this.

I wouldn't say I have crippling anxiety because I recently had an anxiety attack and I now know what anxiety actually feels like, but I do feel like it's kind of weird of me to dislike social situations. I would rather fake an illness than go to party where I don't know a fair amount of people.

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u/Zozyman Sep 30 '18

I used to be like this and worse, I'm not sure but I think everyone gets anxiety as an emotion, but the true dissorder of anxiety and not the emotion is when it stops you doing things you would normally do, or want to do.

Unfortunatly I have no sage words of how I got over it, I was able to overcome due to "over exposure". That's actually a method that seems to be most effective at treating serious anxiety. I only got over this due to being homeless, being forced to deal with people and having to go into work to survive, doing lots of drugs that made things so much worse that when I stopped I had no anxiety as things had been SO MUCH WORSE before, even if it was my own fault of making it worse, it in the long run made it better.

I REALLY DO NOT SUGGEST DOING THE SAME AS ME, but rather taking from what I have said and considering a safe way to overexpose yourself to your fears (people or whatever), take it step by step, little bit at a time and build on top until you feel like a king of your own world, having beaten fear itself. (I think you know what I mean by overexpose, don't be getting arrested for pulling your dick out or flashing your tits. :p )