A Place to Introduce Yourself

Hey everyone, I'm freyastar and wanted to say I'm new here and hope to make some good friends! I suffer from depression, anxiety, OCD, and self harm. Right now, I seem to be coping better than I ever have, but my shyness and lack of confidence stop me having friends and a decent social life. This seems like such a lively and supportive place.
Oh, I'm 27 and live in England.
xxx

welcome freyaster.

freyastar said:

Hey everyone, I'm freyastar and wanted to say I'm new here and hope to make some good friends! I suffer from depression, anxiety, OCD, and self harm. Right now, I seem to be coping better than I ever have, but my shyness and lack of confidence stop me having friends and a decent social life. This seems like such a lively and supportive place.
Oh, I'm 27 and live in England.
xxx

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Welcome to the board Freyastar. I hope you enjoy this site and make many new acquaintances...I'm new here myself.

Thanks guys, I'm pleased to meet ya! :wink:

I've been reading these forums for quite some time and finally desided to post.
Ill keep this short cuz well..i dont really have much to say heh.
im an 18 year old guy from sweden who obviously has social phobia.
Can't say im much of a talker, not even on the internet so i probably wont post very much and when i do it'll just be pointless stuff anyway.

well i just wanted to say hi soo.. hello everybody.

Hi everyone,

I just found this place yesterday so thought i'd say hello and introduce myself.

I'm a 26, i'm a girl, i'm from Edinburgh and i've had SP for as long as i can remember. I also have depression and am a recovering self-harmer.

I always thought that the SP was just me 'being weird', but when i was diagnoised and finally heard the term social phobia and was able to look it up, i realised i'd had these problems for a long time, and had somehow managed to arrange my life around the 'issues' i have. I have a problem with most social situations; speaking, writing, eating, shopping, meeting people (sometimes even if i know them well i will avoid contact), crowds, answering the phone, answering the door and so on.

I'm currently re-doing first year of uni on a different course after dropping out halfway through last year due to SP and depression. I ended up spending a couple of months in hospital with depression/anxiety after attempting it last time. Uni is just as hard this year but i have been given some help from the disability office attached to the uni this time.

I work part time (weekends) as a cleaner in a hospital, which is managable, there are no high social demands put on me and i can have my breaks on my own.

At the moment i am on no medication and recieving no treatment. Hopefully having a place like this to post to will be good for me, as now i'm back at uni i can't hide at home, the sp is getting out of hand just now.


hope to speak to you all soon



CatsMother

wELCOME cATS. I know that allot of people are agianst meds and so on but I find it REALLY REALLY helped. I am off of them now and the sp prob is coming back. I had allot of side effects from paxil but it took the sp away even as severe as it was. I am also 26 year old female or I will be in march. sp sucks but there are allot of us out there. I know that you can feel releif cuz I had it for quite a while. It is my own fault that I am back where I am at because of what I have put myself through lately. No one would not have anxiety after what Ive been trying to pull off for the past few years. Pretty much living 2 lives. It sucks I hate it but for some reason I did it and now my sp and panoc is back from it. Well sorry enouph about me I hope this place helps.

Hi my name is Jerry im 39 and have just been told i have social phobia.....and i thought it was just me...... pls feel free to say hi and take it easy on me as this is very scary! 8O

Thank you yetisbabe....ps what does your name mean?

people suk

heya allll

im candi n 19 years old! ive had SP for about 2 years n i hate it :x i really wanna get better now but finding it really hard so i kinda hoped this site wud help me coz id realise im not the only one and take advise from people who have gone through it or are going through it too!
its really ruined my life as i am only young so am finding it hard to do a normal 19 year old things, i mean i have come a long way since i first got it but i want to be able to do everything again. so any advice or help will be veryyy welcome hehe. i just think it will help me knowing im not the only one and i have read and can really relate to other things people have put which does help i just wanna get chattin to some nice people

thanks
lots a love
candi xx

HI candi. I got this when I was 17. I am 25 now. when I was 19 it was the hardest for me. I couldn't ride in a vehicle with ANYONE. When friends would call I would make up excuses why I couldn't do anything. If my boyfriend that I lived with had friends over I would hide in the bathroom. He would have a party everyweekend and I would have to stay in the bathroom because I was having panic attacks. I would have a panic attack if there was a knock at the door. I worked graveyards at a job where I didn't have to talk to anyone. I lsot every friend I had. I would stay up for days worrying about when I would eventually have to be in a social situation. On New years my boyfriend planned a big party out in the ountains and I had to stay home all alone becasue not only couldn't I go and interact with people but I was to scared to be in a vehicle with him because I couldn't run and excape when I started to have a panic attack. My mom had to drive 6 hours, kidnapp me, take me to Las Vegas and get me some help. IT worked. I was panic free Until about 3 or 4 months ago. Now it has come back. It's not to the point yet where it has completely takin my life away but it's getting there. About 4 months after I got help I was able to carry on almost like I never had SP. I could go out with friends to clubs, work a busy day shift, even got married(wich led to divorce!) but that's a whole nother story! I hope things get better let me know if you need to talk or need advice

thank u sooo much that really helped! i find it a huge shame that its started to come back do u know why that is? why were u with this bf when he did that to u? did he not know about the SP? coz if he did that was really insensitive how he went about having parties and stuff knowing how u wud b! i mean ive got a bf and he doesnt know about this at all, i cud never tell him im too ashamed the onli problem its caused that he invites me to his but i cant go!! i mean i can do the odd things like go shopping in town if my mum takes me and brings me bak i can get on a bus now n again depending how i feel! its kinda scared me thinking i could do all this n get better n then it can all get worse again later on in life thats horrible! i just want to be able to work, see my friends wen i can, live a normal life really! yeh i wud love to chat to u and get advice it wud really help me thank u
luv candi xx

I could do things like shop too. That's all I did pretty much was shop and sleep. I don't have a probem with the short term strangers. LIke talking to people working at the stores or the small stuff. It's when I am in a social situation where I feel that all eyes are on me. And if I know them then I am more worried .I never tried but I am sure I could of road the bus because I wouldn't be confined to having a person I know in a vehicle watching and waiting for me to panic. A bus wouldn't be nothing! We don't have busses here though! As for my boyfriend he became my husband, then x husband, now we are just living together again!!!! BUt he won't let me be on medication so that is why it is coming back. HE says that he is supportive yet STILL makes plans without letting me know and still has people over and drags me out to social things and when I try and talk about it he says it's all in my head and that I am just weak minded and to just get a grip. HA if it were that way then I"d be cured long ago. IT's my own fault it came back becasue I have put myself through some MAJOR stressful and wrong situations in th epast 3 years. And sadly enouph I"m still doing it. Until I can get a hold on what I am doing I don't think I'll be panic or phobia free again. my e-mail is [email protected]. write me sometime if you want

just thought id introduce myself again seen as ive made a new account coz the other name wasnt me i just cudnt think of nethin so the old scaredgirl86 is not me hehe well im candi, 19 from nottingham theres my nice introduction
luv ya lots like jellytots
luv candi xx

introduction

hi my names robert am 35 years old have always found it hard to mkae freiends with people am currently trying to gain qualifications in it.
if theres any one out there who whants to chat about anything they like am all ears hope to here from some one soon.

bye

Welcome guys

Welcome back chav / dreamer. Glad you decided to rejoin, love the new name, really cool

Naomi x

Hi I'm new here. I registered in August but I was too scared to post anything. I'm 27 and live with my mom. I rarely leave the house. I went to college for a while but due to anxiety and depression I dropped out. I'm a gender queer, emo, slutty, nerdy, loser. Or something like that. Really I'm just a person who doesn't fit in anywhere. I joined this site because after reading the posts I realized that their are people out their who are somewhat like me.

Sorry I'm not very good at introductions.
I would like to try to talk to some people here so I can learn to socialize a little bit.

Thnx for letting me waste your time.

Heya Gloomy, welcome to the site.

I have difficulty fitting in anywhere, I don't really seem to fit into any 'catagory' but ah well, I'm not really sure I want to :lol:

Glad you decided to post

Naomi x

Heya gloomy!
Welcome to the site n dont worry ull fit in here we're all lovely people hehe
if u wanna chat sometime add me to msn [email protected]
n thats for ne1 else who wants to chat too i love meetin new people
luv candi xx