I have been extremely worried about our daughter.
She has always experienced social anxiety throughout her life. While she had numerous friends when she was younger, she just drifted apart from people. She got to the point where she didn’t want to hang out with anybody. Even when she would have friends call her up to hang out, she never had any interest. She just wanted to stay at home and relax with the window A/C unit working in her room. Sometimes I wondered if it was my fault for buying her that window A/C unit. I thought maybe it gave her too much incentive to stay at home in her room, but I figured that couldn’t be the reason. I had a talk with her one day about it and she told me about her social anxiety and how she didn’t really feel comfortable hanging out with people. She said that she felt kind of depressed because of the way she is, and she didn’t know what to do about her problem. I asked her if she wanted to see a psychiatrist, but she said that is only for crazy people. I told her that wasn’t necessarily the case, but she declined and said she didn’t want to do that. I mostly just give her space, but I do ask her if she wants to go out and do things. Sometimes she’ll go to the beach with me or to a restaurant, but she never wants to spend too much time going out places. She always wants to go back to the comfort of her air conditioning. I hope that eventually she is able to make friends again and do something fun in life.