I'll be turning 21 this Saturday and I can't say I'm looking forward to it. In light of this, I was wondering how others here celebrate your birthdays? So far it seems that I'll be spending the day alone, scared I might actually have to be around to see 22.
I spend so much time alone, and I talk to myself incessantly (although I've always done this quite a bit), but now I barely know how to communicate with my own family. Sometimes I really do think my psyche is becoming warped. I feel stuck. Anyone else wonder sometimes if they might be losing it?
And wonder how on earth you could look the way you do? It's no wonder that I have no confidence and that everywhere I go I feel buried in a layer of pure ugliness.
"Recovery" for people like us? I mean it's not like getting over a drug addiction, and even if it were the threat of relapse would loom over our heads for the rest of our lives. But do people with social anxiety/ phobia really ever recover? Or do they merely find ways to cope and therefore...
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For me, I knew I was officially a hermit today when I got hungry and decided to have food delivered to my home. But instead of going to the door when the delivery person arrived I had set out money and a note telling the person to leave the food on the porch. Sigh, what am I...
OK, so I just got a phone call about 5 minutes ago from Petsmart asking me to come in for a job interview tomorrow at noon. This surprised me because I had applied online just the day before yesterday. I applied for the position of Pet Care Specialist. The job description says that they: "Work...
Do you ever go places and see other people in awkward situations and you get nervous or uncomfortable just watching them? This happened to me the other night. I went out to the store (something I rarely do) and it was nearly midnight which meant the store would soon close. There were only a...
And a girl asked about what kind of jobs would be suitable for someone suffering from Social Anxiety Disorders. I found some of the responses to be rather telling of how some outsider generally perceive social anxiety.
One person responded:
"I thought s.a.d. was seasonal affective disorder...
And she graduated high school two years behind me. It's times like these that it really hits me just how far I've slipped behind because of my SA. Makes me wonder how I could've gotten to this point. It's pitiful.
How many of you feel like your just plain stuck right now? It's like I've become too afraid to live my life and now I'm watching everyone drift past me and go on with theirs. I know I'll have to work really hard to change that somehow. The friends I graduated from high school with are heading...