ArmadilloPolarBear
New Here
Most people don't understand that social anxiety can be severe. I have lived my entire life and especially my childhood terrified of talking to people. Traumas probably started it when I was really young. Panic attacks are also traumatizing as a child, when no one helps you with it, and you are expected to deal with it alone, and cannot as a child. Now I am a adult in my 30's, and I am still struggling in life to deal with people. I basically avoid all social situations which I need to use my voice box and make sound (talk), seemingly easy things to do are a huge ordeal. It makes me wonder how much is wired so deep in my brain I cannot change, and how much harder is it to change these anxiety reactions as I get older? I really hope to not be doomed to complete loneliness forever because I cannot talk to people.