Hi, I don't have the perfect answer/advice.. but I just wanted to say a couple things.
I was in the same boat as you when I was about your age. I have what my therapist calls an avoidant personality. I basically avoided anyone who was trying to help me. I spent my early 20's in my parent's basement playing Quake and Warcraft. It's a long story but I wound up in the psych ward when I was 26 and finally put on medication and have been seeing a therapist and psychiatrist regularly for the last 3 years. I now have a good job and just finished my BS at 29. I'm pursuing my Masters now.
I don't really know what to tell you, just please please PLEASE don't do nothing at all. I don't know how you can get up the nerve to talk to a doctor, but you have to do it some way or the other.
Also, I've read a couple of those self help books, all they did is make me over-analyze myself and make me more anxious. A lot of the stuff in them didn't even apply to me. If you see a therapist regularly and they get to know you, they can tell you what specifically applies to you so you can focus on that.
I was in the same boat as you when I was about your age. I have what my therapist calls an avoidant personality. I basically avoided anyone who was trying to help me. I spent my early 20's in my parent's basement playing Quake and Warcraft. It's a long story but I wound up in the psych ward when I was 26 and finally put on medication and have been seeing a therapist and psychiatrist regularly for the last 3 years. I now have a good job and just finished my BS at 29. I'm pursuing my Masters now.
I don't really know what to tell you, just please please PLEASE don't do nothing at all. I don't know how you can get up the nerve to talk to a doctor, but you have to do it some way or the other.
Also, I've read a couple of those self help books, all they did is make me over-analyze myself and make me more anxious. A lot of the stuff in them didn't even apply to me. If you see a therapist regularly and they get to know you, they can tell you what specifically applies to you so you can focus on that.
