How much social interaction do you get on a daily basis?

oNecoOlazN

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...i barely get any, I spend most of my days @ home, talking to myself and imagining i actually had people to talk to..
:roll:
 

VioletTears

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Well, I'm jealous of everyone else because I get plenty of interaction and I HATE IT!!! I work full time in a job that requires me to be social... and it's literally almost killing me. I feel so incompetant and convinced that people all think I'm stupid and such and I feel totally trapped like I CAN'T quit because I feel like no matter what job I do people will think the same way of me. I really just want to hide from the world.

Oddly enough, I love interacting on the net, but in person is sooo different!

It drives me nuts when people say you just need exposure because all my exposure has NOT made it easier and it's really destroying me. But probably everyone is different, I guess...
 

Tab

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Well a lot of the time I tell my self tomorrow I will go somewhere. Like for example I've been meaning to go to a shopping mall to buy myself new clothes. Since June I've put it off and everyday when I wake up I say o tomorrow I'll go then by then end of the day I'm mad I didn't go. The only social places I really go is to visit my grandparents or see some close friends.
 

autumn_82

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During the school year I have classes and work, which forces me to have some social interaction. During the summer while I'm at home, I usually only interact with my parents. I have social interaction, but none of it is pleasant.
During weekends at college I usually spend all of my time alone, so I do minimal talking. Sometimes I've worried that I'd start actually losing the ability to speak decently because I spoke so little.
 

Ken

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Well I have one friend that I hang out with from time to time, but other than that no real life social interaction. :cry:
 

strawberrybrunette

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My family, and the occasional text message or phone call from a friend. Not in school at the moment, but usually i would have to interact with people at school. That's one of the things i hate most about it. Even if you just want to be alone and get away from people, you can't when you're at school. I suppose work is the same.
 

villacjs

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Everyday I have contact with my family as we all live in the same house. In terms of other people it depends if I go to uni or the shops etc. I'd say 3/7 days I would have contact with people who are not my family.
 

cobalt_bluester

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Some days I can get barely any social contact / interaction. I wish it wasn't this way but I am trapped in myself and my perception of others peoples negative feelings about me. :cry:
 

Kien

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oNecoOlazN said:
...i barely get any, I spend most of my days @ home, talking to myself and imagining i actually had people to talk to..
:roll:
I do similar but I try to stop myself when I am about to start wispering. All times when we get a big assignment and we don't have to do it in school, I stay home all the time doing it there instead. And those days, or weeks the only non-internet contact is when I say hi to the cashier at the grocery store. Since I almost only speak online with people who has different time zones than I, many days I go without talking at all.
 

Schmoo

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Nervous said:
Since I've been on vacation from school and unemployed, I barely get any social interaction.

Right now, since I'm not working, very little except my family. When I start working, it's too much.
 

Infected_Malignity

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for a guy with anxiety and only a few friends, a lot. my workplace is huge and i meet a good handful of people there on a weekly basis (most of which end up quitting and i never see again). but it helps me get a little more out of my comfort zone, and that's good enough for me.
 

PhantomPod

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VioletTears said:
Well, I'm jealous of everyone else because I get plenty of interaction and I HATE IT!!! I work full time in a job that requires me to be social... and it's literally almost killing me. I feel so incompetant and convinced that people all think I'm stupid and such and I feel totally trapped like I CAN'T quit because I feel like no matter what job I do people will think the same way of me. I really just want to hide from the world.

Oddly enough, I love interacting on the net, but in person is sooo different!

It drives me nuts when people say you just need exposure because all my exposure has NOT made it easier and it's really destroying me. But probably everyone is different, I guess...
Same here. I work full time, so I get a good amount of interaction everyday, and it is really killing me.

Also, I agree on the exposure bit. It's annoying when people will tell you to just put yourself out there and it will get better. I cannot tell you how many times I have put myself out there, tried different approaches, tried new things, etc. It has never gotten easier. I remain in the same exact state of complete anxiety.
 

chris87

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Most, if not all, of my contact comes from my family, work, and school (kind of hard to avoid people when you're on a campus!).
 
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