Recent content by goldatom

A little rant. Just now I went to take the elevator up and some people were moving in. The gentleman moving in (I presume) kept looking at me and I kept looking at the display waiting for the elevator, and probably made a face. Then I walked away hurriedly and took the steps themselves. I must...

I either walk with my head down, or look straight. I can't look at girls in the eyes. What a loss. Maybe I will die without ever being able to look at girls, but wanting to do so.

Did you read the news story about it? Here it is. This part of the brain is called the amygdala and it's small and almond shaped. From what I have gathered, it is the one which causes social-anxiety in us and all other kinds of anxieties, by forming connections from past events and associating...

We are all emotional retards on this forum-source

I've given up on being socially confident. It makes me have a nervous breakdown or makes me bend over backwards to please others. I have ruined my academics and job prospects in trying to be confident or even normal. So I've given up on it. Right now I've locked myself in my bedroom while there...

Have any of you worked in phone-based technical support? Doesn't the need to speak frequently strain you?

I have analyzed my fear of work mainly to all the display of ego that it requires, requiring you to act and dress smartly and perfectly all the time. In the same vein, people my own age or younger start talking to me contemptuously when they start working and I haven't. I hate all this display...

I've tried many medicines for years and every time I give up. I've tried many for depression and anxiety but the one that worked the most was fluoxetine (prozac). But all of these medicines including the ones that didn't work ended up making my thoughts go haywire and crazy in a couple of days...

This post was pointless so I deleted it.

Hi, I was reflecting on my childhood. I remember being pretty extroverted when I was 4-5 years old and being popular, topping in studies and in sports (yes, I know it's a very young age but that's the only time I've been all these things). But when I look at my photographs from that age, I see...