A good runner up is Avoidant Personality Disorder. It’s like an even more extreme version of social anxiety, where you want friendship, but you fear the connection and think everyone thinks so negatively of you that you frequently don’t even try, assuming it’ll end in disaster.
Yes, by and large. Social phobia is distinct from GAD in that the person with SP really only has impairing anxiety around the ideas of people, interactions with people, conversations planned and completed with ruminations of same, etc. they need not have anxiety about other things. More…
This is distinct from public speaking phobia in that the latter only occurs when in the setting of being a single speaker in front of a group of others; where social phobia need not incorporate speaking, or anyone else at all—even the thought of people and interactions producing impairment is SP
Trauma from childhood bullying? I have the same thing. People were only ever nice to me as a kid if they were planning some cruel joke and I’m so traumatised by that that if someone says “good morning” to me I’m like “are you bullying me?💔”
For me it's past experience lol
Sometimes I give people the benefit of the doubt again until I'm fed up with re-addressing boundaries with people & hoping for the best. There's a small handful of people in my life who haven't turned out to be that way or closely associated with people who did that
I have this, my therapist says it’s because my BPD mom weaponized love and kindness “I did this for you and this is how you repay me?” And “this” would be, you know, buying me a birthday present
I genuinely thought that was just being alive. I’m also suspicious that everyone else is a telepath but nobody is telling me because I’m not a telepath
That kind of persistent mistrust and belief that others are acting with malicious intent could align with symptoms of Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD). PPD is characterized by a pervasive suspicion of others, often interpreting their actions as deceitful or harmful, even without evidence.
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It’s a real thing and it sucks
There is not cure for low IQ’s
The good news. If you think !
You will very quickly recover
- Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Major Depressive Disorder
If it was rhetorical u can ignore this completely
Don't even understand why I'm still alive anymore.
That's *like* literal but without the health insurance
to get a diagnosis & treatment.
Good luck in your journey in self/awareness. Keep rocking! 🤘🏻
you instinctively assume it's at your expense? 😓
Sometimes I give people the benefit of the doubt again until I'm fed up with re-addressing boundaries with people & hoping for the best. There's a small handful of people in my life who haven't turned out to be that way or closely associated with people who did that