Recent content by ShadowCat

When I'm around other people, I always feel like I'm acting differently so they'll like me. I'm so obsessed with trying to make sure people like me that I'll try to act how they might want me to. Does anyone else do this? How can I stop worrying about them liking me?

I was wondering how many people here went to a psychologist or a psychiatrist. (Sorry if the poll doesn't work, this is the first time I've used one.)

I was looking up things about avoidant personality disorder on google, and all of the symptoms were right on the mark. I never realized that I had avoidant personality disorder. I used to be extremely shy and whatnot, and have gotten better. I always feel socially inept though. I feel like no...

I posted earlier that my dog was sick. We got the pathology report back and it turns out that my dog has hemangiosarcoma, which is a very aggressive cancer of the blood vessels. If we don't use chemotherapy, he will probably only live for another 1-2 months. If we do use it, he will probably...

Learning more about my dog's condition, it looks even more grim. He's been around for almost my whole life. How do I cope with this!? Is it good to cry or is it better to not? How should I cope? I'm in denial about it too. He looks fine, but he is far from it.

Is anyone else here jealous of people who are really outgoing? Sometimes I admire them, but I'm also really jealous. At school, there are competitions and whatnot that I would like to go to, but I'd go alone, and that would suck. I'd have a horrible time. I wish I could be one of those people...

Everytime when I imagine myself in a fantasy kind of situation, like daydreaming, or when I imagine myself being really good at one of the instruments I play, I realize that I usually am imagining myself to be the best, like it's a competition. I enjoy the flute, but if I imagine myself being...

Sometimes when I get nervous, shy, or flustered when talking to someone I start to talk in a higher pitch. I feel kind of silly doing it, but it's not something I do intentionally. I don't think I sound too bad though, thankfully. Does anyone else experience this?

I get really nervous talking to or even thinking about talking to people with foreign accents (thick ones). I'm always afraid of not being able to understand them and getting really embarrassed. It sounds kind of stupid, but does anyone else have this problem?

Whenever I'm the center of attention in class, like when I answer a question or am asking a question, I start blushing really badly. I'm so embarrassed by it, then I just make it worse by worrying about it. Do other people think it's bad when you blush? Do you think the teachers think I'm odd...

There is a field trip coming up. We're going out to a forest to camp for 3 days. I have actually made a friend this year and she is in my camping group (the group is made up of 4 boys and 4 girls), but she isn't going on the trip because she doesn't want to and her mother doesn't want her out in...

I've never been to a party before (not including birthday parties when I was little), can anyone tell me what they are like?

I just started high school yesterday. My friend that I always hung around went to a different school so I started to hang around with another girl who is really nice. The thing is, whenever I'm around her, it's like my mind is blank. I have nothing to say and I can never seem to mantain a good...

Gah, school starts this Monday. I don't like school. It's my first year of high school though. Don't know if that's good or bad... Anyone else here going back to school?

Does anyone else ever keep thinking about a conversation that you had? Like, if you go out, talk to someone, then when you come home you keep thinking about what you said, what they said, if the way they were talking meant they weren't mad at you, and if you said the right things. I sometimes...