I was never a socially apt person, I'm extemely shy and introverted and barely leave my house as is, not counting work/school, I think I used to leave my house every weekend, but after the p\*ndemic I noticed my social battery has started to run really low. I was loving the quarantine period as I didn't have to interact with anybody but I've been noticing some weird stuff happening to me and I wonder if anyone else was experiencing it.

It all started in march when I enrolled on a test prep school, they started in january so I had two months of studying to catch up to in a week, my mother insisted I go out to a birthday party I did not want to go to, I complied, but I started catastrophizing and had a panic attack so strong I harmed myself. Then me and my partner went to a concert and it was horrible, as we met some people that managed to trigger some deep insecurities of mine, I had another panic attack. Then a friend asked me to help her move or something, I can't really remember, I just know I felt my battery running out and said I couldn't stay any longer, but she kept pushing for me to stay and I didn't want to be a POS, so I complied.

I just know that, after that series of outings I was having panic attacks every other day, had to miss A LOT of classes because mid morning I would start hyperventilating and crying, now I'm terrified of leaving my house since every time I do, I have a panic attack, I'm scared of having one in public and embarassing myself, having people laugh at me or be a burden to those around me. I always feel like I'm bothering everyone around me and, for this, I've been in like 4 social situations in the last 3 months and my therapist said I developed very similar symptoms to agoraphobia.

I'm interested to seeing if anyone else has experienced something similar, because it feels awful and... idk, I jst want to feel less alone.