Will the Heroes in a Halfshell topple the demonic duo of Mr. X challenges Mike, Leo, Donnie, and Raph to a final battle for the city, leaving them unaware that he’s made an alliance with one of their toughest foes… Having last suffered setbacks at the hands of the Green Machine, the Syndicate has reared its ugly head once again. X had come back with a vengeance, going toe to toe against not only the rag-tag team of Max, Axel, Blaze, and Skate but also at least once against the Fearsome Foursome, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Many people suffer from more than one condition.A year after their first battle with the Syndicate, the original Ragers and their city have enjoyed 365 days of peace. In many cases, there’s no single solution or diagnosis to a mental health concern. Remember to talk to your doctor or therapist if you want to know more about what you read here. And not always with enough time for the creation of a funny alter ego. Social anxiety forces you to be invisible, in disguise, or in hiding. With people called Lynja Turtles (I can’t get past it). The secret identity you created to talk about important things. You’re talking to people you may or may not know, but remarkably, you’re safe in your, well, shell. One, pricelessly, not only had a funny picture, but called themselves Lynja Turtles. The avatars of most of the interlocutors were silly like that and gave you no idea who you were talking to. Not too long ago someone on Twitter said they couldn’t take the online conversation seriously because they were talking to cats and Ninja Turtles. That’s what is happening in your head every time you leave your safe space. Now imagine that was how you felt about everything. Humans can’t survive embarrassment, imagined or real. If that’s how war happened – by people falling or tripping or knocking over the cereal display – wars would be over real quick. I don’t actually care if the reason is that you’re so relieved it was not you. The laughter in the face of someone else’s horror. I am the furthest thing from a good, let alone kind person, but I have never understood that impulse. How many videos are there out there that string together dozens of these experiences for our entertainment? And the eternal mortification of the person it happened to. Not a life-or- limb-threatening fall, just a bit awkward, clumsy. Imagine seeing someone fall in a public place. Social anxiety skirts that pain by never allowing you to enter the field. The mercurial nature of the teenage mob needs no excuse to cast out a member. You don’t have to be awful to someone for them to leave you. Rejection hurts even when you know you’ve done nothing to deserve it. Clinical definitions are often imprecise, and in this case, with an infinite collection of manifestations, it must be even harder to draw a neat line under anything. I think embarrassment and shame find their way into the equation. It doesn’t seem to add up that the same person who delivered a hilarious and engaging speech to a packed auditorium may not be able to function in seemingly less stressful situations like trying to buy a snow cone or taking their dog for a walk. At the core of it is fear of judgement and rejection. Social anxiety or social phobia is very real and very compromising. If you thought it was the reserved teenager who spent all her time in her room chewing her hair and never going out, well, that’s only one version. Social anxiety does not look like one thing. People who would do anything to support and care for their families. Writers who give public readings but never interviews. I know lecturers who are beloved by hundreds of students but can’t go to the gas station to fill up their cars. Even though they are already half in love with her, she can’t. She will stay in her private office and maybe even wish she could do things differently.īut she can’t meet strangers. Her colleagues apologise six ways from Sunday and try to be as entertaining as she is. Sometimes someone is brave enough to visit her office. They think she is terribly busy because no invitation has ever been accepted. Clients send her gifts and ask her to lunch. She’s great at her job and does most of her business by phone. His fear is so debilitating that sometimes there is actually no food in the house because he can’t work up the courage to go shopping.Ī woman I know is so charming and efficient at work people always want to meet her in person. So if people knew he mostly couldn’t go into offices or supermarkets because of paralysing fear, they’d not believe it.
He is articulate and highly opinionated and keen to foist those opinions on innocent house guests. He is, in fact, quite close to garrulous. Commentary Be a cat or a Ninja Turtle: social anxiety in the real world