Review of The Tuxedo

[kiya]

Jackie Chan accidentally as James Bond doing a plot from The Avengers.


The previews included something called Shaolin Soccer, which has Kevin all wound up with enthusiasm. Talk about a movie tailormade to his enthusiasms.

Went out to dinner. Had teriyaki stirfry. Ate all the meat even though I didn't really want to. Too stressed to be hungry, dealing with reality making me dizzy and faintly queasy. (He, she, it is nauseized.)

What's the word for phobia of people? Not crowds, just . . . random people . . . ? I never realized how much energy I usually put into whatever structures I have in my head that moderate how disabling that sort of thing can be before I ran out of energy to power them. . . .

Comments

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Social phobia?

Try looking at http://www.social-anxiety.org.uk/ and see if that matches what you're talking about.

[kiya]

Hm. It seems similar but not equivalent -- I don't have the aspect of it that's the being-judged-negatively so much, and that seems from the writeups to be pretty important to the diagnosis. It's much more a . . . feeling of the pressure of people around me, in all their presence and unpredictability . . . than a worrying about what they think of me. (I don't even particularly get stage fright -- I get before-and-after jitters, but not during ones.)

I might well have the performance social anxiety one, actually, in the very specific situation of dealing with telephones. If I have the more general one, under normal circumstances I seem to essentially compensate for it, and it's only showing up now and trying to give me panic breaks because I don't have that much coping ability.