“And I think more often than not, people took my shyness as me thinking that I was too good to be part of the group. And maybe this is just a part of the paranoia aspect of having anxiety, but either way, these reactions made me want to crawl even deeper into my shell and never come out.”— Krystal Naval, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Anxiety, Snobby, Shy, Paranoia
“Social settings are so overwhelmingly nerve wrecking that I used to make every excuse to stay away from events (while simultaneously talking myself through anxiety attacks about being disliked when I wasn’t invited to an event).”— Krystal Naval, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Nervous, Panic Attacks
“For as long as I can remember, I have always felt anxious in social settings. Whether that be in class or at parties, or even in just groups of more than three people, I just always feel uncomfortable, paranoid, and painfully awkward.”— Krystal Naval, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Paranoid, awkward