Have you always had difficulty with it ,or is it something you only struggled with as you developed a serious mental illness?
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I used to be a class clown, now with schizophrenia I’m a loner that can’t and won’t speak. Its like words don’t come to me anymore.
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I had good friends in school and had a healthy social life, not like that any more though. I struggle with conversation all the time.
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I never really had a healthy social life, just in short spruts maybe. I don’t have that much I wish to say, but want to socialize more. I feel that I’m od af.
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I’m isolated in a country where I don’t speak the language
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I am incredibly antisocial, though I am trying to learn to warm up to people.
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I struggle with being social, it’s never come naturally for me. But I try
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When I was 10 I thought I was popular and one of the class clowns but then after that I got sick and my sociability went out the window!
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I have a pretty good friend group and I stay busy hanging out with friends. It gets me out of the house and helps me control my anxiety. I don’t think it will be this way forever though. None of my friends are busy yet with kids, marriage, careers etc…
I’m very introverted but online I feel better about being more myself as an anonymous entity. In a group I’m very silent.
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I used to have a lot of friends in school and I used to be really sociable. When I got sick, I can’t really have conversations anymore.
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Some comments from my sister.
from the age of about 4 he started to become more quiet and perhaps withdrawn
Tim was always very shy and quiet, and did not typically join in play with our other brother and me
he was never as I recall very social at all
I also think that Tim had a difficult time in ‘reading’ the emotions or feelings or reactions other people outside of the immediate family. He had no close friends in childhood or his teenage years that I am aware of.
As Tim grew to his teenage years he became more socially awkward and reclusive
So you are invited to a party. Lots of people you know and don’t will be there.
Party was canceled.
How did that make you feel?
Relief!!
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i was never confident socialilly …its hard…I have some form of social anxiety for 25yrs
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I can be sociable if I have to be. But I’m not really comfortable with it and I’d rather not.
Always been awkward, but now I’m definitely unsociable. I have a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
How are most people social. Is there like a technique to it?
I’m impatient with people and want to use them as I was used. I do not know the simple joy of being in someones company anymore.
@5713, how have you been? I haven’t seen you on here in a long time.
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I’m a loner too.