Sorry to post something relatively trivial in here, but I have just lost perspective on whether this is an MH issue or not. I have a background of OCD/depression, mostly controlled by a long term low dose of prozac, at least so that I function. I have a child who had a significant developmental delay, which has mostly but not fully resolved, so remains socially vulnerable, so I worry about his future.
I have ropey social skills at the best of times, school was quite miserable, made some decent friends at university, who I lost touch with over the years (they have exciting lives and careers in London, I live a few hundred miles away). I have very few friends locally, I seem to be a stop-gap friend, suitable only till someone more interesting or socially skilled comes along, and am poor at reading the social signals that someone is trying to distance/dump me. I try my hardest not to be needy, but I am not very happy, and suspect my tenseness comes across and puts people off.
Now the MH type stuff -sometimes I just want to be invisible, so people can't judge me, particularly how I parent. I breathe a sigh of relief when the bus stop empties after the school run. I feel stuck in a rut of loneliness which is in danger of tipping over into resentfulness. I find NYE a massive trigger, as I used to have friends to socialise with, but now I don't , my mood was very low just after Xmas.
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Feeling lonely and isolated - social anxiety?
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TheLightPassenger · 09/02/2013 17:49
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