getting worse as i get older!!!!!

Hey, im almost positive my phobia is getting worse as i grow older, either that or my current job, but then i quite enjoy it....dunno, thing is, up until recently my problem was always blushing or twitching but now on top of that im having a real problem with my EYES! i feel them looking awkward when im talking to someone and already people have noticed which REALLY hasnt helped!!!! ....so so so sick of this disorder.....iv tried for sooo long to beat it but like i sayd it seems to b getting WORSE!!!!!.....any1 else feel the same?? or experience eye contact problems????

Hey johnny,

Yeah we're all pretty much in the same boat, I have just come out of another job because of all the problems you have been discribing. Have you had any help with this Disorder? have you been to the doctors?
I know what you mean though it is sooooo frustrating. The thing is were normal, why cant we just act that way!?!

Hey jonny

I know how your feeling, i am 38 and i seemed to have got worse as the years have gone by.

I live in world that scares me, and it scares me thinking about it.

Horrible Horrible way to live!

Well it won't get better as you grow younger. It's getting worse because you're not getting treatment for it. If you don't want it to get worse, go get it treated.

jonny said:

iv tried for sooo long to beat it but like i sayd it seems to b getting WORSE!!!!!

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What have you actually tried to beat it?

I think you need to work on building your self-esteem. But it will take hard work on your part, ie. dailly efforts to change how you think about yourself and where you fit into society. As your self-confidence increases, you'll find that the problems which you describe will diminish.

I think mine's about the same as it basically always has been, but my depression just keeps getting worse.
I have trouble looking at people or making eye contact too, unless they are talking to me...if somebody starts talking to me and if I say something back I can usually make eye contact just fine, but if it's just a stranger passing by me or something I can't make myself hardly even LOOK at them...I usually just look down, or look past everyone. I feel akward looking at people... :? I sometimes have the twitching problem too.

jonny said:

Hey, im almost positive my phobia is getting worse as i grow older, either that or my current job, but then i quite enjoy it....dunno, thing is, up until recently my problem was always blushing or twitching but now on top of that im having a real problem with my EYES! i feel them looking awkward when im talking to someone and already people have noticed which REALLY hasnt helped!!!! ....so so so sick of this disorder.....iv tried for sooo long to beat it but like i sayd it seems to b getting WORSE!!!!!.....any1 else feel the same?? or experience eye contact problems????

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HI jonny,
have you tried any med ?

already gettin help!!

Ok, one person, dunno the name sayd..."it aint gettin better coz u aint gettin treatment", sooooo goin for hypnotherapy, reading every self help under the sun, going to my gp, going to shrinks, trying to help myself on top of taking every herbal RELAXANT the net has to offer isnt trying to get treatment????.......fair play i know i havnt had it for as long as some other people and i know theres prob alot more folk oot there wi more serious issues BUT evrytime i wake up in the morning and have to face a day of complaining customers it really doesnt make me feel any better..........no i havnt tried med, my gp refered me to a hypnotherapist which was about as gud an idea as trying to eat ur own nuts...

tho im up and down, sometimes i forget i hav sp....then other days i cant believe some of the things i did the week before, prob depends on how much sleep im gettin etc etc.......

any1 had any joy with meds?? and if so which ones and where did u get them??....how do they make u feel?....sexual side effects???....not that ma sex lifes anythin to shout aboot these days ha ha cheers

Mine has been getting worse as I get older, much worse.

as i get older i get more depressed at all the things i have missed. i always hear all these ppl younger than me that have done this and done that. like going overseas, seeing the world, going out partying,etc.... and i get so damn depressed cos iam older and havent done any of that.

solution - go out have fun!!!!

easier said than done for us though