Friday, July 19, 2013

Social Anxiety issues... freaking out in public.. NOT Fun


P.S This Blog post stressed me out writing it and it is long.. sorry

This post will go perfect with current and previous situations that have happened to me, recently I was in a public area with lots of people and I freaked out.. of course. But leading up to that through out the day I knew I was going to be in an area with lots of people. So about 30 minutes leading up to it I started to panic a bit but I didn't tell anyone until it was too far gone, then I proceeded to the place with lots of people and at the time was a restaurant in niagara falls, ontario and so as I was walking to it with my family I started to panic a bit more and at this time I was trying to stop it but it wasn't working out well. I sat down with my family and the waiter took our drink our and brought us bread with butter and cold waters to start. By now I was starving and so I ate some of the bread and I thought that If i ordered an alcoholic drink that I would settle down.. WRONG it made things worse as well at that time I was in pain because of a monthly gift.. fml so nothing was going well at this point and I knew I needed to calm down before this got out of control in a public setting. So I ordered my food and was drinking my cosmo and I was feeling worse and worse but I just thought to keep drinking and it will numb everything.. nope. So once the food came I was feeling as if i had to leave and this was my Birthday Dinner with family I didn't want to have to leave the table but it got to be too much and when the food came I was not hungry at all and that is what Anxiety does.. it suppresses your appetite. So I was starving when I got the restaurant and Anxiety strikes and I was no longer hungry and I hadn't eaten that much during the day with it being my Birthday I should of though. Once I felt it was too much I said I needed to step out of the restaurant for a minute to calm down so my dads GF came with me and she understands all of this. So I went out into the mall away from the restaurant and it was full of people which didn't help things but I decided to walk around with her for a few minutes just to figure out what was going through my mind. I did go back to the restaurant and sit down and I nibbled on my food but was completely not hungry now, I decided that the alcoholic drink wasn't going to help anything so I switched to water a safer choice. I did take a pain killer once I got back to the table and once my mind knew I was going to not be in pain anymore I was fine.. Its like nothing happened.. I chatted with family and enjoyed the rest of the meal and then all I wanted to do was leave and go walk around the falls,  after we left I needed to change shoes as they were hurting my feet so I went with my dads GF to the car and I was still panicking a bit after we changed shoes I met back up with them and we walked around the falls and I slowly started to settle down and enjoyed the rest of the night. Once I got home I thought well nothing was going to happen why on Earth did I freak out... I wanted a do over of my birthday Dinner.. lol but that wasn't going to happen. Social Anxiety Sucks!

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