I used to enjoy going out to eat, but I don’t enjoy it as much because I get very overwhelmed by loud crowds of people. That is something I didn’t struggle with before I got ill. Sure it annoyed me a bit, but not to the point where I would avoid it.
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I dont think I have social anxiety, or its pretty mild. But I take Wellbutrin. Do you take anything for it?
I get overwhelmed if I have to talk to too many people. If I can go to a store and not be bothered by a salesman, I’m fine.
Loud noises are hard. As are some repetitive ones. Otherwise it’s all good.
I used to take xanax for anxiety but weaned myself off it long ago. I don’t stress out like I used too and try to get out a fair bit. Sometimes making you do something uncomfortable helps you develop better strategies in dealing with things like anxiety.
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I stopped eating out several years ago. I didn’t like the music, the loud chit-chat and eating alone. I don’t like to socialize. I can prepare better tasting, more nutritious meals at home.I wear earplugs when I go out in public. I have to have absolute silence wherever I am. This is impossible! I’m deaf in one ear and mostly deaf in my other one, but the noise keeps getting louder and louder! This is a contradiction I don’t understand.
I take Trileptal for anxiety. It works.
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Once I developed ptsd suddenly I could not tolerate crowds. This is because I cannot stand physical touch and it is hard to avoid it in a big crowd. Before I had the touch aversion crowds actually made me feel safe.
And yeah loud sounds similarly I did not always have issue with but ended up becoming hypersensitive to them after developing ptsd. Sudden loud sounds feel like a slap to the face, painful and highly irritating.
Yes, crowds of people overwhelm me. And lots of noise too. I love quiet places like beach or library.
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Crowds, noise, going to restaurants and stores all overwhelm me.
I think that going to the cafe and sitting down with my Counselor overstimulated me.
I’m pretty sure it made me more Manic.
I need some social interaction but can’t over do it.
yes I get overstimulated by crowds and noise. I get overstimulated if someone comes to my house. I like a small amount of human contact. I’m great on the forum because there’s no noise and no one can bump into me.
I lose it if someone is in the isle I want to go down in the grocery store. Seriously I need Ativan for grocery shopping. I’m ok in small stores, or if I only have to grab a few items. But the big monthly shopping tweeks me out.
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I feel overwhelmed in crowds and sometimes it makes me self conscious, insecure, vulnerable and I can have a slip in psychosis where I think people are reading my mind…
Yes I also can easily get overwhelmed in crowds and so forth.
It can also exhaust me.
I can go to a shop and it can be s huge deal to just buy coffee and totally exhaust me so I’m laying down staring at roof for hours due to exhaustion.
Other days I have been shopping and active a whole day but it can take me days to recover.
I can go shopping by myself but I can not drive to most places by myself and my car can not be driven because it is broken and needs fixing.
Dinners can be so painful to me.
Most dinners with other people are difficult to me.
It makes me feel awful and I do not enjoy it usually.
I avoid dinners out and with people.
I have felt attacked at dinners and overwhelmed and alone and sad and etc
People coming around for dinner is difficult for me too.
It can torment me.
My boyfriends friends and family come over for dinner sometimes.
One of his friends I feel comfortable with but even dinner with him exhausts me so I have to excuse myself after a hour and go to bed and lay down.
it can be torment having dinner with my own family and some of them I do not think I will ever meet again.
I hope to meet my grandma again though and woman that raised me A&A.
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Honestly, it depends. Some days I’m good with it, most days I’m too afraid to even leave the house or be seen.
I often thought a lot of people were talking about me in those places. I have since decided that although that’s always possible the more likely explanations are that it’s my voices, or other people know people like me.