just because i know this will be relevant to my flist's interests....

[lirazel]

Social Anxiety Is...
Not all of these apply to me, but quite a few do. The one that hit me the hardest?

Social anxiety is staying in your dorm room during meals instead of braving the dining hall.

My entire freshman year. I ate the bad to-go food so that I could eat it in my room during lunch so that I wouldn't have to go up to the cafeteria. I went to dinner with my roommate if she was around, but other than that, it was always the to-go stuff. And on the weekends I seriously didn't leave the dorm except to grab food. Gah. I just had horrible flashbacks.

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[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

When I was at uni I was pretty much eating in the middle of the night because I ended up feeling too nervous to use the kitchen when people were in there :/

It was awful because the other people on my floor were outside my room at one point banging on the door and speculating about whether or not someone actually lived in there (we didn't have roommates) because I was so fearful of leaving my room when there were people milling around outside

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

*hugs* It's making me feel better to know that other people have these issues, too. It's not something that people talk about very much.

[next_to_normal]

Oh, I do that with the kitchen in work. Fortunately, my office is right by the kitchen, so I listen and lurk to make sure no one's in there before I get my lunch out of the fridge.

And the WORST is when I have a frozen meal to heat up, because what if someone comes in while my stuff is in the microwave and wants to talk to me?? (I actually go back to my office and leave the door open so I can hear the microwave beep when it's done.)