Recent content by aj

I hope I can do that. I wish I could. I've tried in the past with other people and I just don't seem to have the ability, even when I know what I might be able to say... it just doesn't happen... I have less hope than I used to. I thought that meeting people with anxiety issues would help, but...

I will hopefully keep going to the group :) I'll try to do what you said but I still have the same problem I always do, there isn't really much if any interaction and I just don't have the confidence to go out of my way to say hello. I only managed to offer the lift home last time over text and...

Thank you and I think you're probably right in everything you both said. It did feel nice to be asked and hopefully she does trust me a bit. Although I'm reluctant to dare to believe too much. Any questions will have to be over text, it it a pain trying to even begin to get to know people you...

Yes, just her, and I think she said it as, "and I'll see you...?" and I said, "at the next group meeting". I am fairly sure about it all but the anxiety I had at the time makes it hard to be 100% sure. The memory isn't as clear as it could be. But I seriously doubt anything was meant by it which...

I've been going to a small anxiety group and I've given one of them a lift home a couple of times because I live in the same town. Have somehow exchanged phone numbers just in case of any changes with the group, which is a miracle in itself... we don't chat or anything. Haven't talked enough to...

Hi guys. I've been attending an anxiety group - it lasts six weeks and is with six or so other people. It's mostly just being taught about coping techniques, but I have managed to get myself to speak sometimes when the group is asked things. Next week is the last week and as usual I'm leaving...

Hello everyone. It's been a long time since I posted here, 27 now, nothing much has changed... Basically... I don't don't do anything, outside the house anyway. Don't work any more (desperately need to find the optimism to), don't go out, don't have a single friend. Never really did. Never got...

Hi everyone... The other evening I had to go somewhere in the centre of my very small town, and I came across something I haven't felt for many years, since I don't go out much - groups of people who laugh at you as you go by. You have to walk past or through them, and you know it's probably...

Hi everyone... haven't posted for a long time... I'm seeing a therapist for SA now. I only have three or four weeks left, and I am in desperate need to get out there and meet some new people, otherwise I will have blown my last lifeline. I was going to ask if anyone had any ideas of how to find...

Thought I'd ask, anybody here into it? As much as I love F1, the 24 Hours always dwarfs the race that's on the same weekend :)

Oh well. Nobody to help me with going out so maybe I should try a different way - go out on my own and not even bother to try to ask people what the best places are. No pressure, no going in at the deep end, no "you MUST get drunk, do what we do, stay out for hours and pay for a taxi home." I...

If you want to do something you're scared of and you know will tire you, maybe even going to the shops or something depending on how used to it you are and how bad your SA is, how do you get the energy to go out and actually do it rather than put it off again and again and again? Do any of you...

So I haven't been able to make friends, ever. Not even in playschool. So there's clearly something wrong. Nobody I know will give me any advice and so I think the doctor is the only way. Last time I went to see him I just got told to go on holiday... I can't get across how I feel, and I also...

Is anyone here from the Bournemouth area?

Been spending a while on Facebook looking for anyone from school seven years ago who's still living near me. I remember a few more people who were at least ok. Well there's no point. They've all gone to university and/or moved away. It's really depressing. Seeing some of their photos really hits...