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micharoo47
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Social Anxiety from Severe Ostracism
Anxiety Support / by micharoo47
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 February 13th, 2016
...See more Hello, I just joined 7cups last week. So far it has been an amazing release to get my feelings off my chest, and it has made me brave enough to post something on this public forum. I have Social Anxiety Disorder and Atypical Depression. My social anxiety started because of bullying in elementary school which took the form of social ostracism. This shunning continued throughout middle and high school, encompassing a decade of my childhood. Any time I tried to join a social group, I was treated with disgust. I was unable to make close friends as a child, and now I struggle to form and maintain lasting friendships as an adult. It was this prolonged trauma that formed the anxiety disorder like a tumor in my head.Some of the specific effects of ostracism bullying is that the effects are invisible and long-lasting. Authorities don't see the bullying because it takes the form of a LACK of interaction. And the effects of being ostracized even once can last all week, so I'm scared to even imagine how long the effects of 10 years of my childhood are going to hang around. If anyone else has social anxiety brought on by severe ostracism trauma, I would really love to hear about it. Right now I feel like the only one dealing with this type of anxiety but I know that can't be true.
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