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Is this social anxiety?

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FleckFace · 17/12/2022 00:11

I’ve barely been out at all since I had my children 7 years ago. Ive let myself go, and never go out in the evening with friends etc. I do have friends, I’m not lonely, happy to go to child related things etc but on the rare occasion I am invited out with friends I feel so awkward about it. It’s as if I just cannot relax into anything. Then on the way home I feel really anxious and replay conversations in my head. It puts me off going again but really I am trying to sort my life out and ‘live’ again. I wasn’t like this before I had children, I socialised regularly, enjoyed dancing and letting my hair down. The old me wouldn’t recognise the present me. I don’t know what to do about it.

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LipsSoScarlet · 17/12/2022 00:26

It could be social anxiety. A good first step would be to either talk to your GP or self refer to your local IAPT service.

nepolibats · 17/12/2022 00:28

I had this but sertroline has worked wonders

FleckFace · 17/12/2022 02:02

Did you feel normal on sertraline? Or just take the edge off?

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