I don’t think I will go to my Spanish course that was going to start next Monday. Too much social anxiety and I basically have to lie about everything because it is socially not acceptable.
Who suffers from social anxiety as well to the extend that it interferes with their lives?
I have very bad panic attack social anxiety.
For example the other day I walked into the house and there were 20+ people in there. I started shaking, sweating, and jumbled all my sentences. My gma said if I didn’t know you I would have thought you were on something. How embarrassing.
My psych Dr told her it was too much stimuli at once for my brain. I’m sure my grandma didn’t understand her wording at all.
It’s sometimes hard for people to understand if they haven’t experienced it themselves.
Maybe it doesn’t help that I drink a lot of coffee and quit benzodiazepines a week ago.
Yeah I have a hard time without my benzos for sure. To much coffee also makes me jittery. I have learned to accept living in my room. I feel safe and comfortable alone.
I totally understand.
I don’t recommend lying as it stains the soul and just complicates life in general. No one needs to know why you can’t do things.
Edit: Yes, I have social anxiety. More of a social distaste, actually. I don’t see the point of socializing with people who don’t interest me. Waste of my time.
I do. But I don’t tell people I have sz. I tell them I have PTSD which is true. They don’t need to know my business
Idk really, I have become pretty good avoiding irl interactions.
Yeah, I hear you.
It used to be very mild and totally manageable, but has grown into a serious issue for me during this past year. Social anxiety, that is. Maybe I’m becoming more self-conscious about my illness? Should up my AP or AD? I don’t want to take benzos.
Oh, you and Elon Musk 
I hope I behave more ethically than him. He is horrible to the people who work for his companies.
Good riddance from benzos. You are doing well in life- you got off from a benzo.
I don’t agree at all. Life is hard, don’t try to run it in ultra-hard mode. Lie your way through it, who cares.
The people who are being lied to.
See how hard life gets when you lose all the supports you rely on because they find you untrustworthy.
No one gonna judge you especially bad because you hid some serious mental illness.
I suffered from social anxiety for ages and ages. Quite badly.
The good news: my social anxiety disappeared completely.
The bad news: it is because my mind is now scared of things that are worse than social failure. 
The people who think they’re hiding serious mental illness generally aren’t. They’re usually the only person in the room who thinks their behaviour passes for normal. Everybody else be trying not to stare or say the wrong thing out loud.
My masking is not 100% so I have cultured a rep for eccentricity to cover it. People just assume what I can’t mask is part of my weirdness. They don’t ask and I don’t have to lie.
You really think people are that concerned with you? I think no one gives a damm about odd behaviour.
I mostly stay in my house.
Hmm I beg to differ. I’ve been told up front that my behavior was inappropriate, despite my best efforts. It came as a major disappointment.