Anxiety and Parties

How would someone feel about going to a party where dozens to maybe a hundred people are people are? On the surface it doesn’t seem too bad. However, you can’t force yourself into that person’s brain to understand what they are feeling.

Anxiety comes in many different forms and has many different causes. Some have mild anxiety about work related problems and others have high anxiety about family related events.

Then there are some, like me, who started out on the low severity scale and have been upgraded to the point where the anxiety has turned into slight depression and multiple medications are prescribed.

In my case, I kept trying to cover up my anxiety until almost three years ago when it became too much that I had a minor emotional meltdown in my doctor’s office.

My main form of anxiety comes from interaction with people, mainly people that I’ve barely spoken to or haven’t spoken to but will be forced to communicate with through phone or messages like email and texts. It’s one of the reasons why my family didn’t believe that I had anxiety because I could get on stage and dance in front of an a full audience for 15 years but I couldn’t talk to someone one-on-one.

Social anxiety is usually masked as being introverted and antisocial. But really it means that interactions with people make you feel extremely insecure and awkward about yourself and the opinions of others.

Now understanding that look back at the scenario. How would someone with high anxiety/low depression feel about going to a party where dozens to maybe a hundred people are people that he/she has barely or has never talked to? It’s not something you can force on someone. Sure it might seem like a great gesture/idea, however you can’t force that person to do something they aren’t ready for.