Recent content by Newtype

Hi, I haven't been here in a while. Thought I'd share some thoughts. The older I get, the more wisdom I have and the more I realize how much more destructive social anxiety can be compared to what I initially thought when I was in my teens and early 20s. Lately, while trying to find what my own...

Lately I've been wondering if I actually have good leadership qualities, which is strange because I have SA, so all my life, whenever I've been in a situation that involved teamwork, I barely talked and let everyone else decide what to do and even though sometimes I didn't agree, I didn't say...

Hey everyone, I rarely make threads but I've been thinking about something lately and thought I should share it. I wanna discuss the importance of feeling valued when you're fighting SA. I feel like it's something that I've completely ignored and is the reason why I think I've hit a wall in my...

For the past two years, I've been fighting depression, to a point where I sometimes think that I'm finally healed, but then suddenly I crash mentally for no reason and thus my life crashes as well. No matter how hard I try to get back up rapidly, I can't! It seems that the only way to get better...

I'm 24 years old, I've had SA for half of my life. I used to not know why I had SA, until I started analyzing my dreams. Ever since I was a kid, I've always had these crazy dreams and all those dreams had one thing in common, fear. It made me wonder why I always had nightmares filled with fear...

I'm gonna leave this Web site. I don't really know what I'm doing here anymore. I think the only thing this site does is bring comfort because you get to see that there are other people like you out there with the same struggles. I don't need that comfort anymore. I just wanna crush this SA once...

A long time ago I made the decision to not approach any girls until my SA is completely gone. It's sad living this way, but I don't want to take any risks. Loving someone is also being there for that person and I fear that I wouldn't fully be able to support that person as long as I have SA...

Often I can't sleep or I have to sleep but feel like I have too much energy. I'm sure there are other people like me. A trick that I found a while ago is to watch relaxing videos on YouTube. I'm often searching for new videos, hidden gems, but I can't find them all by myself, so share your...

I don't drink alcohol. I never did. I just don't see the point. Why drink alcohol when you could just drink juice or milk? That's the way I think. I seem to be the only person in the world who thinks this way. I don't have anything against people who drink alcohol. I just don't want to drink...

Hey, I'm just writing this to share my pathetic story, which seems to happen every time I have a crush on a girl. I've had a crush on a girl for six weeks. I pretty much thought about her every day. She's so beautiful, she's intelligent and when she's playing with her hair in class beside me...

Today, I've realized that the reason why I don't talk to girls is because of one thing: cell phones. Girls, at least where I live, and the ones that I'm interested in, are always using their cell phone. They never let go of it. When they're not talking, they're texting. Even during class when...

Okay, I'm asking this purely out of curiosity. I just wanna know what people think about this, hear different opinions. I don't actually plan on acting based on what people say. I turned 24 yesterday and for the past year, I've been back in school. The people there are 18-19 year olds. Life in...

Whenever I see a beautiful girl, I don't know why but I get extremely sad, to a point where I get depressed. My skool is filled with beautiful girls, so every day it's the same. I go to skool in a good/neutral mood and I leave depressed and sad. Is anyone else like that? Guys or girls.

From spending some time here, I know that many people here feel like everyone is looking at them. I'm sort of like that too, but less now than before. Sometimes, I get these glimpses of girls looking at me and smiling... For example, yesterday I was at school doing some math homework and there...

In my efforts to overcome my social anxiety, I've started doing the opposite of some things that I used to do. One of those things that I used to do is that I used to put my school bag on the seat next to me in order to prevent someone from sitting beside me. Of course, that's not a nice thing...