One of the most suggested ways for dealing with the day-to-day of Social Anxiety Disorder is to keep a journal about the things that get to you so that you can see those things more objectively and learn to process it in a more healthy fashion. As a result, the reason I'm going to start keeping this blog is largely a personally therapeutic one. But if I was only interested in personal therapy, I certainly wouldn't be posting this to the internet. One of the most helpful things to me, as I said before, has been learning about Social Anxiety Disorder and hearing from other people who also dealt with it. In fact, one of the most important moments for me was hearing from a speaker in high school who suffered from SAD. It was a life affirming moment for me because for the first time I realized concretely that I was not all alone, that there were actually other people going through the same thing as I was. In that spirit, I hope to provide the same sort of help for someone else who may stumble on this blog. If you know someone with SAD, or think you might, hopefully this blog will help you help them. If you always felt like something was wrong, and this helps you figure out exactly what that was, be it Social Anxiety or some similar anxiety or panic disorder, and you're able to find help for yourself, then this will have been worth sharing.
Posts will include general information on things associated with Social Anxiety Disorder and stories and experiences of my own. I promise no general complaining about stressful things that everybody deals with or anything like that, just a window into the perceptions of Social Anxiety sufferer in the hopes that you'll find it helpful, or at the very least, fascinating.
