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justmemyselfNi
justmemyselfNi
So I was diagnosed a few years back with agoraphobia. I believe I was mis diagnosed. I do not fear going places where I do not have to talk to anyone I can go to the mall I can go to a grocery store, but everyday social situations put the fear in me. I've had the same job for 5 years now. I still have to have a talk myself into going in to work everyday I am terrified. I have one friend and find it impossible to make any new friends. I cannot afford medication or even the ride to go and seek help. My life Feels pointless. Not only speaking person to person but phone calls. I Use my caller ID I refuse to answer my phone my family and friends know not to call me because I will not answer. I make my sons talk to people on the phone that call. I feel horrible for my children. I tried to put my son in Boy Scouts but it didn't last because of me. Living with such a disorder is hard but it has to be harder on my children having a mother with this. They are missing out on their life because of me. I feel extremely guilty.
deleted_user
deleted_user
if you have kids and are low income have you looked into getting Medicaid? or some kind of government help?
justmemyselfNi
justmemyselfNi
I have Medicaid share of cost and my share of cost is 3500 dollars. That's basically like what I have to say before medicaid covers any bills and not as per month not pretty.
justmemyselfNi
justmemyselfNi
That didn't come out right sorry. That is how much I have to pay per month. And by the way your hair is awesome ericanicole.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I too have social phobia. But I also have GAD, SAD, depression and APD. I have avery hard time talking to people even if know them. I have worked at my job doe 4 years and I am still uncomfortable talking to most of them. I have been told inthe past that certain people thought I was stuck up and rude. It's not that I meant to be that way. I just get too nervous and uptight.
MarianF
MarianF
I have PTSD, Social Anxiety Disorder, Clinical Depression, Anxiety/Panic Disorder. I have also been accused of being stuck-up or rude. I just do not talk to people I don't know. Not out of rudeness or being stuck-up. It just scares the crap out of me and people take it the wrong way.

I get super anxious if I have to talk with people I don't know... in person or on the phone. Sometimes I'm feeling too out-of-sorts to talk much with people I do know.

I have a good therapist who has taken me in and only charges what my insurance pays her. She knows we have very little income and doesn't want me to quit counseling, as I have not quite figured out how to deal with life. When I was without counseling, I got to the point of sitting around wishing I were dead. Then I would take meds to make me sleep so I wouldn't try to figure out ways to die.

I have a good doc who prescribes my meds. She hasn't said as much, but I think she will do this as long as I stay in counseling as I really cannot afford a psychiatrist. But... this doc is leaving her current office and is not sure where she is going. So I don't know what I'm going to do after October. I haven't even quite gotten really comfortable with this doc, but was beginning to trust her. Now I'll have to switch docs!? Not sure how I'm going to handle this. But I guess I'll have to if I'm going to continue my meds. Practically scares the life out of me.

I was also diagnosed with a form of agoraphobia that is a byproduct of the Social Anxiety Disorder. I don't like going outdoors because I don't like people looking at me. I dash out to my car to go anywhere. It takes me sometimes all day to get up the courage to go to the grocery store.

So you are definitely not alone in this! It's a horrible condition. I really hate it. But I have to accept it in order to try to work through it. That is much easier said than done!!