Before viewing this I thought I was antisocial, but apparently I'm just EXTREMELY introverted... It's good to know, I guess. Although depending on the day, number 4 makes me antisocial. But I think it's more of a matter of having given up than anything. And I didn't know about social anhedonia, I think I might be in trouble😬
What do you think about this article?
Are you introverted or antisocial?
Did you know about social anhedonia before reading this?
Thanks for the forum @Miss_Penpal and for sharing it!! 🙏🙏 For me there is a super big difference between online on the forum and in real life. I think on the forum i can say a lot of things and not feeling very stressed. But in real life that is different and i am sometimes not comfortable with groups for example or if you give presentations. And i agree sometimes it is shy but i read about that social activities can cost a lot of energy too and that you need time alone to get energy back and i have that too. Also to make your head less soupy. I dont know a better way to describe that.
But my friends think it is not a problem if you are more quiet and they dont joke about it for example. And if you want to say something they are patient so that is really nice but the feeling that everybody watches you if you say something is still there. And i DONT like that feeling at all and it can make you feel stressed. 🙄🙄😬😬
I think I'm mostly an Introvert, but maybe mixed lol. I feel like both kinda match somehow. But honestly, sometimes I think I might be a weird kind of Extrovert with social anxiety. I know that sounds very controversial, and I might be wrong about how it works but I often want to be in larger groups, meet more friends/people, would want to go to parties not be alone too much etc, and stuff like that. But I just get anxious when it actually happens, and stay quiet/in the backround, only to regret it afterwards. If I actually do say something, maybe let loose a bit, I overthink it for the rest of my life, hours every evening before I sleep. Or I'm just an introvert who REALLY wants to be an extrovert. idk I'm confused lol
I know ambiverts exist, but I don't feel like thats the right term for me, even if this might sound like it....
some people also misjudge me as very cold and distant.
Everyone is extroverted on the internet😭
I think if people say you are cold and distant that they DONT know you at all. Because you are super caring to your friends. 🙂
And i was thinking about the last thing you wrote and i think it is true. Or at least people are MORE extrovert than normally. I have that a LOTTT. I say things on the forum like games or other things that i would DIEEE if i say it in a group or at school and everybody looks at you and listens.
But I think it is ALSO true that online can help you feel more secure and comfortable. I think writing on the forum helps me also normally to do things maybe a bit easier. It is not the same but it helps. 🙄🙄
I think if people say you are cold and distant that they DONT know you at all. Because you are super caring to your friends. 🙂
And i was thinking about the last thing you wrote and i think it is true. Or at least people are MORE extrovert than normally. I have that a LOTTT. I say things on the forum like games or other things that i would DIEEE if i say it in a group or at school and everybody looks at you and listens.
But I think it is ALSO true that online can help you feel more secure and comfortable. I think writing on the forum helps me also normally to do things maybe a bit easier. It is not the same but it helps. 🙄🙄
I want a diagnose for Social anxiety (I'm pretty sure i have it) and for a few others i don't think i want to name as well, but 2 of my friends (who have the diagnose) said its superrr hard to get, and costs money.... Idk how to get diagnosed. But i think having a diagnose would make some things easier. But no idea how and where to do this, so yeah.....
But same for me, on tyhe internet I'm soooo much more extroverted as well!
- I like this kind of "tests" and gladly look at them, but I don't really trust them.
- I'm probably both introvert and antisocial;
- I just heard of anhedonia, like the lost of feeling pleasure which is kind of a core symptom of depression. I didn''t' know that there was a social anhedonia, but if so, it doesn't really sound nice?
I want a diagnose for Social anxiety (I'm pretty sure i have it) and for a few others i don't think i want to name as well, but 2 of my friends (who have the diagnose) said its superrr hard to get, and costs money.... Idk how to get diagnosed. But i think having a diagnose would make some things easier. But no idea how and where to do this, so yeah.....
But same for me, on tyhe internet I'm soooo much more extroverted as well!
Do you really have to pay for it? I went to a psychiatrist to a regular center and didn’t pay,they were very good and i got my two diagnosis . It’s a center for youth and kids and you can go there till you are 21. Norway is similar to sweden in many ways,isn’t there something like this too? I know that going to a free center sounds stupid but i swear their services are really good. I also go to a psychologist there but I honestly preferred when i had a private one,she was better but I honestly can’t say that my current psychologist is bad for being a free one. But yeah the psychiatrist was the best. I am sure there are some services there too as i said,you can try 🙂
Do you really have to pay for it? I went to a psychiatrist to a regular center and didn’t pay,they were very good and i got my two diagnosis . It’s a center for youth and kids and you can go there till you are 21. Norway is similar to sweden in many ways,isn’t there something like this too? I know that going to a free center sounds stupid but i swear their services are really good. I also go to a psychologist there but I honestly preferred when i had a private one,she was better but I honestly can’t say that my current psychologist is bad for being a free one. But yeah the psychiatrist was the best. I am sure there are some services there too as i said,you can try 🙂
Maybe the free way is a slower and harder process than paying for a private doctor. For instance in France, a test I was suggested to take would take years in public and not much less in the private sector... Moreover, in the private sector, I would have to pay 50-100€ per appointment in advance. So even if it was refunded for a huge part, that would still be a heavy blow in a budget.
Hello, I don't know if it's always good to pigeonhole ourselves and others into ever smaller boxes. It doesn't give us freedom, it constricts us more and more. I've never done psychotests like that.
My friends don't think in categories either.
My hope for the future is that everyone can live the way they want to.
I've only been here since today and please tell me if I'm being a bit too brash.
