Shame, Social Anxiety, and Psychosis

[Apotheosis]

http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/05/...and-psychosis/

Researchers in England examined shame and social anxiety in a cross-sectional sample of people with and without psychosis. They found that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is “surprisingly prevalent among people with psychosis.” The authors suggest that shame cognitions “arising from a stigmatizing illness play a significant role in social anxiety in psychosis.” The article appeared in the FirstView section of Psychological Medicine on May 21, 2012.

[What a clever lot figuring that out with their research!]

[firemonkee]

With me the avoidant/social anxiety was seen as a lesser problem to what was seen as the primary schizophrenia/schizoaffective dx i had for 30 years.
If you're seen as psychotic then everything else takes a back seat no matter how chronically/deeply/and insidiously it affects you.

Funnily enough when i was more 'out there' ie acutely ill, though i was still prone to social anxiety, i was not as tuned into other people's reactions and did things i would never dream of doing now.
Now i'm a lot more aware of other people and how my behaviour or lack of behaviour might impact on them i'm a lot more avoidant/socially anxious.