I had some extra time in my school's library the other day. There was a Psychology Today magazine lying around with an interesting article. I thought I'd post it here because it mentions a bit about shyness and creativity. Check it out if you're interested.
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When I'm mad at my loud, obnoxious, outspoken, bossy mother-in-law, I pretend like I'm telling someone else about it and it helps to get it out. I do it repeatedly like it's a compulsion.
I think about what I'm going to say to someone days before I say it and rehearse the convesations aloud to an empty room. I also think of random situations and act them out as if they would ever happen.
Sometimes I act as if I am talking to someone in my head, thought I never talked loudly, just in thought, but I make gestures and move lips. I don't usually realize when I start to do that. I keep thinking on a situation where I am explaining something to someone, and I even keep thinking on funny things and laught alone sometimes... lol, not laught out loud but I stay like with a smile in the face. A few times my sister catched me like that lol... oh my god, she must think I'm crazy. Shyness is not for the faint hearted... lol
I think I should stop doing that, when we feel the need to talk we should instead seek for real conversations. That is like replacing real conversations for false ones.
i do, i usualy talk to myself when im purchasing items or whatnot, trying to figure out the math, sometimes it can get pretty severe but mostly is under control.
Sometimes I act as if I am talking to someone in my head, thought I never talked loudly, just in thought, but I make gestures and move lips. I don't usually realize when I start to do that. I keep thinking on a situation where I am explaining something to someone, and I even keep thinking on funny things and laught alone sometimes... lol, not laught out loud but I stay like with a smile in the face.
i do this a lot. especially after social situations where i replay the situation in my head over and over and imagine what i should have said and how i should have said it... weird. it is not intentional. i will just catch myself making facial expressions or saying things out loud or laughing- usually when i am totally alone. when i do catch myself i think to myself that if anyone else saw me that i may be frightening to them- it's so weird.
maybe this is why i am so paranoid in social situations. i'm afraid my true weirdness will be unaccepted... so i am weird by censoring myself instead.
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I live alone, just me and my 4 dog's and I find myself talking to them all the time. Do you have to go to the bathroom? Or Murphy is this your poop! At least no one else can hear me. But, today I was in Wal-Mart and found myself saying,No! you don't need that, I was in my own little world.
Sometimes I act as if I am talking to someone in my head, thought I never talked loudly, just in thought, but I make gestures and move lips. I don't usually realize when I start to do that. I keep thinking on a situation where I am explaining something to someone, and I even keep thinking on funny things and laught alone sometimes... lol, not laught out loud but I stay like with a smile in the face.
i do this a lot. especially after social situations where i replay the situation in my head over and over and imagine what i should have said and how i should have said it... weird. it is not intentional. i will just catch myself making facial expressions or saying things out loud or laughing- usually when i am totally alone. when i do catch myself i think to myself that if anyone else saw me that i may be frightening to them- it's so weird.
maybe this is why i am so paranoid in social situations. i'm afraid my true weirdness will be unaccepted... so i am weird by censoring myself instead.
Anyway, I think talking alone is not something characteristic only of social anxiety. There is a lot of people who do things like this like review situations in their heads. I have a friend like this and he does not suffer from social anxiety.
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