What am I? Agoraphobic or what?

Question:

I will leave the house. I have great anxiety about having people over to the house. I can't relax if someone visits. Most of the time I just don't answer the door. I have difficulty going to places where the exit isn't visible. I am not good with people or forming relationships. I'm great at joking around, but not at joining groups or becoming a part of a group.

Is it social anxiety?

Answers:
It does sound like you are experiencing problems that you are uncomfortable with and these are affecting how you live and how you feel.

There certainly is help available. Both western and eastern medicine have ways of helping with these problems. Reach out! This is the first step. And be gentle with yourself, don't try to force yourself, learn to relax.

certainly sounds like it

SOUNDS LIKE SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER.
you can get help for it, and it's more of a pain in the butt not to get help for it. it is pretty easy to control in this state.

I think you have social anxiety.

if you dont like being around people, that sounds like sociophobia. if you dont like being unable to see your escape route, that sounds like either claustrophobia or paranoia. ask your doctor.

Agoraphobia is a fear of being someplace without an escape route...like being in a building but not knowing where the doors are to get out. I don't think you're really agoraphobic...it does sound like you have some social anxiety though.

What am I? Agoraphobic or what?

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