how to be more normal in social settings
i feel like i cant be myself, and this deep pit of sadness, when im in a group of people. tonight i had to leave a friends birthday party early, because even though ive known everyone there for years, i feel like an alien and just wrong. and if people ask if somethings wrong (because even though id love to have a poker face, i wear my heart on my sleeve ugh), i cant open up and say anything. i know WHY i do this, its because my mom is a POS and didnt love me properly so now subconsciously i feel like i don’t deserve love/care and like everything i do is wrong blah blah blah mommy issues blah. i want to get over this. when these feelings arise, i feel panic set in and i want to run away. or, never be in those situations in the first place. example again, tonights birthday party. a mutual that i hate was attending, and i was embarrassed to see them due to some embarrassing things i had done in the past and hadnt seen them since. instead of telling me to deal with it like an adult, my brain was screaming at me to just not go at all. not go to a good friends birthday just because some chud i hate is going. even outside of this specific group, i feel this feeling a lot. i also have issues with food which causes me a lot of anxiety in social settings, because people dont like people who dont eat. i feel empty, weird, and alien in social settings. and then i focus on how weird im being instead of just talking and having fun. i feel like im becoming a bit agoraphobic which runs in my family weirdly enough, which scares me.