Hello everyone,

I'm quite new to this group, and am releved to find an anxiety group
that is so close to home.

I have suffered from anxiety ever since I could remember (21 years)
and it does run on my mothers side of the family, but I just leared
all this only recently. I've been to many many doctors, but they all
shove some unknown pill in my face before saying: "Take this, if it
doesn't work I don't know what else to do for you".

I have taken the natural road to helping with my anxiety and work out
and eat healthy often. What my question is, is that is it normal for
people suffering from anxiety to not know how to make any friends or
act around people? I have no friends and feel most comforatable when
I'm locked up in my room. I can't even have conversations on the
internet without people backing themselves away from me. Is this
normal for someone suffering from anxiety? Or is it just a deeper
rooted psychological problem...

I mean, even when I'm with someone one on one, the words just don't
come out right and I get to thinking what that person is really
thinking of me.


Please help, I'm close to tears here...

Thanks,

Crystal P.