Posted by Jost on August 29, 2006, at 23:13:08
In reply to Re: Depersonalisation etc » Declan, posted by Reggie BoStar on August 29, 2006, at 18:25:23
> Hi,
> For me, the fear with Social Phobia is that either someone in the crowd will harm me in some way, or I'll come to harm and be helpless in a crowd of apathetic and/or potentially dangerous strangers.
>
>That reminds me-- when I went to a huge public High School, from a small private school. The whole private school was much smaller than my 10th grade class.
It's not the worst part, but between classes, everyone would be pushing and jumbled and not watching where they were walking. People would just back into you, or walk into you waving their arms. The halls were packed and like an auditorium with amplification, and people would also push and shove going up and down the stairs. I actually thought I was going to be run over and people wouldn't even notice that I was there, and would just walk over me.
I had an image of lying on the ground and being trampled underfoot.
It actually was pretty frightening.
Jost
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