Anybody with severe anxiety like social phobia daydream a lot as a kid? I know the mechanisms of dissociation come from daydreaming but I was wondering if day-dreaming a lot as a kid made you more vulnerable to anxiety.
I was excessively (but not pathologically) shy as a kid. Not with other kids but specifically adults. I couldn't bear them looking at me - I'd run and hide from uncles and aunts. I'm wondering if excessive social anxiety is like a morbid outgrowth of our ability to displace our center of thinking and observation. Like less socially anxious people are not very aware or are not very traumatized by the 'Other' - that they are being observed and judged by by minds not their own.
I'm posting this in lieu of deep web research so links to more info would be appreciated.
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this signature | Show by default | Change to hide (next time)C-PTSD: social phobia, major depression, dissociation.
Currently: 450mg amitriptyline single dose at night.
Also: Allegra, 1000mg Vitamin C.
Slowly improving.