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recluse needs help understanding newly social anxiety

I use to be a super social light. Loved going out with friends and parties, always had jobs that made me social (waitress, makeup artist, door to door sales etc). About 3 1/2 years ago I started going recluse (stay at home mom) just not going out like that. Now 1 1/2 years I’m a staying home and pretty much only leave the house for grocery shopping , maybe slight shopping here and there , or to my sons therapy (almost 4 year old boy). I use to be nervous of people judging me but not I freeze up. Like I can talk to the cashier fine lol but I get super overwhelmed, now I dread going to the grocery store I try to get everything so I can post pone going again for a while (1 week). I’m not sure why I feel this way. My house is super calming to me , I feel safe and it’s like a constant big hug or wearing your favorite hoodie. I’m 25 in a week and pretty much if I wake up and know I have to leave my house that day to do something I just dread it. I’ll try to find a way to push it off another day or finding if it’s really a priority etc. anyone else go from being social and not caring to literally just feeling like staying home all the time ? #aniexty #BPD #SocialAnxiety #Recluse #Homebody #GettingHelp

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Lonely Mom

I found this sight over the weekend. Hello from Iowa. I want to know if anyone else struggles with social pressures and fake friends. I should be so lucky with my blessed life but instead I find I’m surrounded by fleeting friends who don’t care about anything but social status. I feel completely isolated and disgusted by people. and i don’t really like most people anymore which is so the opposite of my personality. #Socialclimbers #Recluse #lonely

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Feeling weird today. Don’t know what you call it. When you don’t really want to leave the house. Needed to go to the shops and really had to work up to it. Went to the closest as quickly as I could. Can’t describe the feeling. Is it Anxiety?

More and more I would rather stay inside than see anyone. Im so tired. I don’t want anyone to see my grotesque form. I don’t want to talk to anyone. I make myself do it as I have a full
Time job and a 3 year old. No choice but I hate it.

Wish I could feel “normal”, whatever that is. #SocialAnxiety #Recluse #Fatbastard #Selfhate #numb #empty #lonely