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Depression, social phobia (I get panic attacks in some situations) & agoraphobia. All of those are most likely related to low self-esteem & negative thoughts. I have no idea how to stop it and I'm not exactly a functional person in society.

Sometimes I think to myself, okay today I'm going to pretend to be super confident and act like nothing's wrong and everything goes well until I get into a (personally) difficult social situation, my mind goes blank, I don't know how to react and that makes me panic (sometimes teary). Then I think I end up looking like an idiot and we're back to square one. Usually I end up feeling even worse after that.

Sucking it up doesn't work in this case. I know, conciously, that it is irrational thoughts, emotions and behaviour but when I end up in an issue, then everything goes berserk. @_@