I've been struggling for a while with anxiety disorder but thankfully there are people in my life who are helping me.
Yeah I had social anxiety disorder when I was a teen, it caused me much fear and distress and caused me to be a shut in for many years of my life.
Yes that's a real struggle and it's a beautiful blessing to have people around who are trying to help. But they don't always know what to do either.
Social inhibition
Social inhibition is a conscious or subconscious avoidance of a situation or social interaction. With a high level of social inhibition, situations are avoided because of the possibility of others disapproving of their feelings or expressions. Social inhibition is related to behavior, appearance, social interactions, or a subject matter for discussion. Related processes that deal with social inhibition are social evaluation concerns, anxiety in social interaction, social avoidance, and withdrawal. Also related are components such as cognitive brain patterns, anxious apprehension during social interactions,
. She also stated that separate to her more recent postpartum depression, she had previously been on antidepressant medication and had been receiving psychiatric therapy for the past eight years for clinical depression an anxiety disorder and panic attacks. 
"I had everything in life I could possibly wish for and finally I had this beautiful baby girl but I never felt more desperate and sad... (I felt) like there was a panel of glass between me and the outside world... I used to think about the carving knife in our top kitchen