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Social Anxiety Disorderby ~heartshapedscarz

Traditional Art / Drawings / Macabre & Horror

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A mask, and guts upon the floor.

*rocketdave Jan 19, 2013

I'm not entirely sure what the guts upon the floor are intended to represent, but because of them, I see this as a painfully accurate representation of what social anxiety has done to me- particularly the problems it's caused to my health.

~mariahpink Feb 7, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

I can relate to this so well and I feel for anyone who feels like this. Will I do something that will cause me to be laughed at, will they talk about me behind their backs, what if I say something wrong. It is very lonely yet safe.

Very powerful - great colours and expression

~heartshapedscarz Feb 7, 2010 Professional Traditional Artist

Thanks.
And yes, something to that affect. Sometimes I'll be in a social situation and a sudden wave of complete loneliness will crash into me.
I'm actually working on turning this into a painting.

~mariahpink Feb 7, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

I understand

On the art side of things - this would look gorgeous as a painting. The expressive oil/acrylic paint kind would look fantastic

~nadiel42 Feb 6, 2010

mm i have sad. its no fun. feels like people laug hat you. I have a drawing of it here on dA. The mask par tis right and wishing there was a hole in the floor, along with people being "shadows"

~heartshapedscarz Feb 6, 2010 Professional Traditional Artist

I know the feeling. I've had issues social anxiety disorder and agoraphobia for years.

~nadiel42 Feb 8, 2010

i stay in my "bat cave" as others call it--- my room. i like to go out and have fun. But for other things and sometimes i freak out, i run a "scenario" through my mind of how i will act where i will go, whats going to happen, its usually alot worse than what really happens, but i dont know. I cant sit in the living roomwith peopl i dont know , large groups im okay with but onkly if im one of the first few to get there BEFORE it gets crowded. i had to go to the DMV and i freaked out, and it was crowded and hot so i couldnt breathe, the fear makes me feel like someone is choking me, though they arent, I used to not be able to wear my hair up, because for some reason having my ears showing used to freak me out, its not like i didnt like them or anything. And cuz of everything i always look over, under and to both sides of my glasses, and catch people actually staring at me. they think i dont know but i do. Im not paraniod. I freak out when my fiance leaves me alone in a room, even though the farthest he goes is into the next one and closes the door. I dont knowwhy it freaks me out. Maybe abandonment issuses, but then again he doesnt really abandon me.

~heartshapedscarz Feb 8, 2010 Professional Traditional Artist

For me it's plain old chemical imbalance. I've suffered from a very bad anxiety disorder for 9 years now, and I didn't find out until a year or two ago my great grandfather was agoraphobic.
The ability to go out to certain settings is something known as a "safe setting." If you go somewhere unfamiliar to you it tends to trigger anxiety.

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