Does social anxiety cause irritability ...and can you be hospitalised for it?

I was diagnosed with it but is it that serious where a person can be hospitalised? It's seen as a mental illness, sadly but I don't see it as such as it's hard for me to accept. Since lately, I've been overwhelmed and avoiding people as I'm trying to focus and get myself together in life. I lashed out, non physically recently after feeling caved in by my personal issues.

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abracadoo22 · M

Yes, it can make you easily annoyed. I get angry when things go wrong because I am already imagining consequences, which might not happen, of course, but anxiety does that. Like avoiding people and worrying about a meeting at work or a social event, meet-ups, or dates, or attending someone's wedding. So for example, if the bus is really late, I'm anxious about how busy it will be on it, and I have an appointment out of town, I think of all sorts of negative outcomes for this. Being complained at on arrival for lateness, or having to pay a cancellation fee for a missed appointment and having to go home and wait for the new appointment to come around. And I get stressed and have an anxiety overload. None of those things might happen but it's very real and plausible at the same time and I get furious.