Being Productive Whilst Having Social Anxiety Disorder

Sometimes I find my day can be wasted due to feeling un-motivated, feeling too socially anxious, or just I guess generally being lazy. Today I found that I got a lot of work done and decided to try my best to spend as little time as possible on the Internet unless it is work related – pretty much meaning that I need to be signed out of MSN for as long as possible!

I’ve found programs like MSN to be really addictive but such a time waster, unless I am talking to people who are work-related. I can easily spend hours talking to random people, about anything and everything, and I found that this was really distracting me from my work. Its something that allows me to socialise with people who I’d never have been confident enough to talk to if I was with them in person, I think due to the whole Social Anxiety Disorder. I find that on MSN I am very different to how I am in real life – much more open and honest I think. Its nice because MSN allows me to speak to some interesting people and I’ve met a few other people who have Social Anxiety Disorder and its really nice being able to speak and relate about the illness with them :) So basically I’m trying to limit my time spent on MSN and other distracting websites!

Have quite a few exciting and interesting new website projects to be getting on with now too, so am looking forward to making some progress with it all in the next few days/weeks. Hoping to start making some money again!

Apart from work I’ve not done too much else, had an interesting game of football yesterday with some friends – started snowing extremely heavily and I was soaked through, having only worn shorts and t-shirt. I can’t ever remember feeling as cold as I did, and then watching my friend drive home with about an inch of snow on the ground (having fallen in about 30mins), and driving through a massive kind of snow-storm. Was exciting but cold! Was nice playing with friends but I kind of feel a bit outcast because I don’t really see them often anymore, I think they gave up on inviting me out.