http://disqus.com/by/LauraLydia/enSat, 10 Oct 2009 17:55:41 -0000http://www.socialanxietydisorder.net/coping/life-with-social-anxiety.html#comment-19816352<p>I just discovered this site too. But I see, April, that you posted nine months ago? Is this site still active?</p><p>Anyway, I've had SAD pretty much all my life, but had no idea what it was for most of that time. I thought it was just me and was forever trying to leave this or that situation, or this or that part of me, behind. Or I thought that once I resolved my self-esteem issues, I'd be okay. Well, having SAD can result in your self-esteem taking a beating, that's for sure. But I think my self-esteem was basically okay. It was the SAD that was the problem. It still is. In fact, it's funny how, over time, I realize more and more how it's impacted my life. Choices in career, never letting myself move ahead or trying for anything, choices in marriage, etc.</p><p>In a lot of ways, I've just kept myself distracted. I have two kids (my son is now 23, my daughter 15), I went to law school (how's that for a bad choice? I still love the subject matter, but needless to say, I am not a litigator), and now, as my kids obviously need me a whole lot less, I'm at complete loose ends. (I've been divorced for ten years.) I want people in my life and want to do something about meeting more people -- but that all seems a much better idea in theory than in practice. On any given night, it always seem so much easier to just go home than to do anything to actively change my situation.</p><p>I guess that's it for now. So. Anybody out there? Anybody feel the same?</p>LauraLydiaSat, 10 Oct 2009 17:55:41 -0000