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.
Yeah social inhibition is a crazy thing, its crazy that such a high level of social inhibition can cause someone to shy away from new events for fear of disapproval from people.
That's right and people can go deeper and deeper into this dark state and their well-being is suffering on emotion and mental level.
Shyness
Shyness (also called diffidence) is the feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness especially when a person is around other people. This commonly occurs in new situations or with unfamiliar people. Shyness can be a characteristic of people who have low self-esteem. Stronger forms of shyness are usually referred to as social anxiety or social phobia.
The primary defining characteristic of shyness is a largely ego-driven fear of what other people will think of a person's behavior. This results in a person
. 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