Heightened social anxiety

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Does it make sense that now in my streak(12 days) I've been waaaaaay more socially anxious? Like the anxiety really spiked up, I met a friend of mine to study together, and I was super anxious because I spoke silently and almost didn't have anything to say, no eye contact, all this stuff.

I have social anxiety on a regular basis, but today it felt extreme. Does anyone else have those anxiety spikes in the reboot?
 
There is always a reason for your anxiety. Being on nofap may let you pay more attention to yourself. You may start to see your shortcomings - and work on them.

Did something happen to you on that day - bad encounter or failure to achieve some task? Are you feeling insecure/insufficient?
 
PeterGrip said:
There is always a reason for your anxiety. Being on nofap may let you pay more attention to yourself. You may start to see your shortcomings - and work on them.

Did something happen to you on that day - bad encounter or failure to achieve some task? Are you feeling insecure/insufficient?
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I feel a lot of insecurity in myself over the last year overall, especially when I study.

UnholyConfessor said:
Yeah I think this is normal, it could be a symptom of withdrawal or flatline.
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I do notice the flatline now
 
Not having patience being around people counts? I'm not concerned about what other people think, neither I have any sort of confidence issues. I just hate being around other people and I want to tell everybody to fuck off. Can you conclude this is some sort of social anxiety as well?
 
JiuJitsuGuy said:
Not having patience being around people counts? I'm not concerned about what other people think, neither I have any sort of confidence issues. I just hate being around other people and I want to tell everybody to fuck off. Can you conclude this is some sort of social anxiety as well?
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Depends on why you hate people and why you want to tell them to fuck off I guess
 
JiuJitsuGuy said:
Not having patience being around people counts? I'm not concerned about what other people think, neither I have any sort of confidence issues. I just hate being around other people and I want to tell everybody to fuck off. Can you conclude this is some sort of social anxiety as well?
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Most of the days its not because of it. surprisingly, quite the opposite. after some nofap streaks I notice a desire to be more social then before. I am mostly insecure tho, cause I have nothing to be secure about myself at all in the grand scheme of things.

But because I do wanna be social, but I get really nervous about it(no matter men or women) then it starts to bother me, but if I dont wanna be around people, then I wouldn't say its SA, cause you explicitly dont wanna be around people, which I can get, I have such days as well.
 
I tend to get nervous around women, not because I don't know what to say or how to act, but because I don't want to be looking at them and start having these sexual fantasies in my head and feeling like they are just some sex objects.
 
JiuJitsuGuy said:
I tend to get nervous around women, not because I don't know what to say or how to act, but because I don't want to be looking at them and start having these sexual fantasies in my head and feeling like they are just some sex objects.
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Me too, and during reboot, even around women I know and talk to regularly, when I know I don't have an intent to date them for various reasons.

With women I know its mostly because the sexual thoughts just skyrocket during the reboot, its so bad, that even with women I know I tend to sexualize in my head in a very unhealthy way(basically putting them in porn scenarios in my head, or all that they do in life is just sleep with as many guys as possible)

And around women I don't know its mostly the typical anxiety of not knowing what to say or how to act, I'm very insecure of myself in a variety of ways, and thinking of myself as boring is one those insecurities.

And one of the biggest insecurities I have is being a virgin at 23, soon gonna be 24 in 2 months, so that doesn't help me either :emoji_unamused:
 
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