Mental Health Support

You are right. I am afraid. As much as I need the isolation (sometimes), I also need the acceptance of the others around me. I cannot make myself social, although I would like to have a few friends other than my husband. I can't do it. I cannot talk to people. It brings on so much anxiety that I get physically ill. Instead, I end up isolated and people tend to think I am egotistical or "stand offish" when I am really just afraid.

I've always been this way and probably always will.


It has taken me a week to work up the courage to read the replies to this post.