I just started watching the first season and I'm a little bothered by the way social anxiety is portrayed. I know it's n
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WalterWheyt — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 05:13 PM)
Im suffering depression and social anxiety at times too.
I believe it is presented very well.
I was woking in offices too, i have good friends, i had girlfriends.
Depression and social anxiety are not dominant every day all day long.
I even had times in the last few years in which i felt very good and met people.
And i also keep contact with friends i know for many years.
There are people i can get along with very well, even if i dont know them very well. These are mostly people that feel soehow special or very unique. With some strangers, you can talk for a long time and have a good time. It sjust that this rarely happens and doenst repeat itself very often.
Its hard to keep contact with new people.
Depression is also not that 1 dimensional. AS i said, there are periods in which i am outgoing, happy and active.
Depression hits often spontaniously when you dont expect it. It can stay for days, weeks or month. sometimes just hours of sudden sadness.
People with these issues can also seem to be perfectly fine to other people. In a medium like film, its difficult to show what exactly is going on inside the person, because from the outside the person seems fine.
I would say the daily life can be a real struggle. It very often is. And i think that is, for me, the hardest part about it.
It is at times a struggle to even just get out of the bed thinking about work/studying or going into the public. It often feels like carrying alot of weight that slows eversthing down, that makes evers step tougher than it should be. Concentrating is tough if you drift away into overwhelming thoughts. A flood of thoughts that can come in many shapes and forms. In the form of ideas, dreams, hopes, fears. it can be creative or destructive. But it usually isnt focused.
Sometimes you feel alienated, like a silent observer. Like walking 1 step behind yourself. Sometimes it as if noone around you notices you.
It can go as far as giving you physical pain.
With all these voiceovers and contradictional action compared to his thoughts, i think they do a good job at presenting it. -
Joeyjag_97 — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 08:32 AM)
I have to agree with you here, the social anxiety "theme" that surrounds Elliot in S1 seems to have completely died off in the second season and I'm kind of glad it has because it was giving a false portrayal of SAD. It is definitely more physcosis and not social anxiety, the symptoms he is getting will tell you that (even though some of them are the same), SAD doesn't give you hallucinations and/or serious disillusions which is exactly what he is experiencing. He also seems to be just fine speaking in a meeting and talking to total strangers on the street, a person with social anxiety disorder would never do these things let alone lead a f-cking group of hackers to take down a giant corporation.
"A man chooses. A slave obeys." -
jamese777 — 9 years ago(January 05, 2017 08:26 PM)
Here's a very short list of some famous people who do/did their job in front of tens of thousands of people.
https://www.verywell.com/which-celebrities-suffer-with-social-anxiety-3024283 -
jamese777 — 9 years ago(January 05, 2017 08:47 PM)
Here's a very short list of some famous people who do/did their job in front of tens of thousands of people.
https://www.verywell.com/which-celebrities-suffer-with-social-anxiety-3024283 -
henrik-roschmann — 9 years ago(January 08, 2017 03:17 AM)
Don't forget that he is a morphine addict.
Morphine will have a similar effect than most antidepressant or antipsychotic pills.
This will make his life easier and enable him to interact with people on a minimal level. -
a_crow_quilled_threnody — 9 years ago(January 17, 2017 09:42 PM)
I use to run a local social anxiety meet up group. Met dozens of people on it. I've met super outgoing people that were loud in public and liked attention. I met a couple girls that couldn't even reply to yes or no questions. No matter how many friends they had they were definitely lonely. I have a ton of friends that I tend to avoid even though I'll constantly convince myself I wish I wasn't lonely.
I can work just fine and go out to shows and bars. My twin brother can't do any of that, and is even on do vial security. Social anxiety is all about willpower. I just happen to have more determination than him.
I think most people with social anxiety just can't connect well, or are bored of people easily. For me I like to meet strangers for a day or couple weeks of In-person fun, and then cut ties. It's less pressure to have for disposable friends than nurturing real long lasting friendships.
Elliot is self medicating and constantly in his own head. Two signs I see in most SA people lol