Are you socialable Sometimes?
Being diagnosed with depression doesn’t really help out in socializing,you need to put in effort to mix around with others unlike people who are mentally healthy.I believe though that people who has depression can still socialize to a certain extend.Are you still sociable with any type of people?
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I’m not depressed, but I do find socializing hard sometimes. The more people I’m with, the faster I feel drained, especially if it’s people I’m not comfortable with yet.
There’s a lot of unspoken rules to be remembered when making new friendships, and trying to not make mistakes makes me tired. Afterwards I often think about the things I’ve said, hoping that people didn’t mis-interpret them.
I definitely feel like it’s more of an effort for me than for normies, and sometimes I also feel like people don’t realise that, and expect me to reach out and be social for hours.
Sure, I could be better at reaching out. Friendship is a two-way street, and I need to do my part. Sometimes I just wish people would cut me some slack, though.
On the other hand, I often have trouble making friends with other introverts, because if you take two people who are bad at starting conversations and keeping them going, and then place them in a room together, there’s going to be a lot of awkward silence.
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I agree with Berru. I am not introverted , but keeping being social for long makes me exhausted as I can’t focused on conversation more than 15 minutes. Being around with friends is stressful for me. Not that I don’t have motivation to be social, it’s just that I don’t have the energy to do that.
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it’s much easier to socialize with voices. so I choose psychosis over real life. I can’t handle real life.
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I quite enjoy socializing.
I have been social in the past
But paranoia and voices come when I try to go out especially at night
I am sociable with only one ill friend and my family. The paranoia and my social anxiety and phobias are too strong now to see others… Ive done it in the past , when I was unmedicated, and everybody saw that I am quite crazy lol. I did some dumb things which I regret now…
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