User blog comment:Hank412/What Scares You Guys?/@comment-5619531-20140912025908

I would say that talking to new people in real life scares me.

This doesn't mean job situations--I can handle discussing with co-workers perfectly because that relies on it. But when it comes to approaching people and making new friends that aren't friends with the person I like, my acting class, some people that I shared classes with since elementary/middle school and people who approached me first, I have this fear to go up to people and say "Hey... My name is Artie, and yours?" It's sort of like social anxiety disorder.

I was to a point that I wanted to go get help by a professional (even if it meant taking medication like Xanax, or stuff that'll calm the bubbly feeling in my chest down to where I am calm.) But my mom blamed it on my ex who was helping me out at the time, I, somehow, yelled back, and all else escalated downhill for me emotionally.

I'm healed over by the fact of my parents not allowing me to fix my SAD by myself (which asking for help, and them denying it contributed to some of my behavior [that and me not feeling welcomed/stressed out for leftover feelings for an ex, my confusion if I love the current person I loved, and many more])