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BLURRY asked in Social SciencePsychology · 7 years ago

I can't keep relationships and I can't socialize, what does this mean for my life?

I am 17 years old and although I suffer from a list of anxiety disorders including social phobia, I have many other social issues on top of that that I fear will affect my future in a very bad way.

I will try to make this as short as I can while explaining everything as well.

I cannot keep relationships. I only have one friend I talk to (Which is unusual) and even that is overwhelming to me. I go through friends and relationships very fast. And although I have a very deep sense of empathy and understanding for every living thing around me, when I let these people go, I do not feel a loss, I feel relief. I can't have friends, it makes me sad.

For some odd reason I can't handle seeing other people. On Facebook even, seeing people's regular daily lives is very depressing and troublesome to me. It is all a let down for me considering I'm usually off in my paracosm which consists of lively wondersome people and reality never fails to disappoint.

I hate it when people try to be my friend. I HATE when they try to relate to me, it drives me nuts. I feel like when I'm talking to people I'm just humoring them by pretending to care. They're not interesting, they try to relate but they just don't and the process is boring. I never have interesting or fulfilling conversations with anyone, I find everyone very boring even though I care about them as people and I will be nice.

To be honest, the only time I can be happy is when I'm alone in my home by myself. People stress me

Update:

out in real life. I find my own company most amusing and comforting. I'd rather just sit alone by myself all day, romanticizing life, pretending things are interesting and coming up with new, fun stories to keep me busy every day. People bring me so much stress, anxiety, bordem, and overall discomfort.

Does this mean I'll never have a functioning relationship or closeness?

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    If the psychiatrist knows his job

    he will probably realize that you are either depressed or have a personality disorder as another poster said

    Schizoid may be one possibility

    lots of them don't however and that's where you get misdiagnosed

    he may call you ''psychotic'' or even ''schizophrenic''

    claiming that you exhibit the negative symptoms of psychosis

    You may also be slightly Autistic

    Look up Asperger's

    However, there is also a possibility, and we should not overlook it, that

    you have been very unlucky in your life so far and all the people you have met

    as friends have been TOXIC people, and they would stress ANYONE , not just you

    So your problem may not be totally yours

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Ask your parents or brothers to hook you up on dates if you can't do it on your own. Try dating sites. Also try traveling around the world become an expat.

  • Andy C
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Look up schizoid personality disorder.

    It's not like schizophrenia.

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