Recent content by Starry

I've noticed a lot of people, certainly not limited only to those who have mental health issues, suffer with feelings that they're inadequate or their lives are not "going anywhere" because they either have no goals which the want to reach or they are unable to reach their goals. Therefore they...

Be truthful! How many portions of fruit and vegetables do you eat each day? Everyone knows the "Five a Day" mantra which is echoed everywhere, but I'm interested in seeing how much real people actually eat. Check >THIS< site to find out what a "portion" is if you are unsure. I eat between 5...

So, I've had more than one request to post the story of meeting my husband on this site. I did post it, maybe a year or two ago, but as it was within a thread it seemed to get a little lost... So here it is again... This will be long!! I registered here in December 2006, 22 days later, on 2nd...

I wrote this a few years ago, and after mentioning to someone on here I decided to go back to it and check it through again... I was expecting to be very disappointed with it, but actually, I'm much happier with it than I expected, it needed very little reworking! Which is stunning! lol It's a...

I didn't really know where to put this thread... Anyway, I was just wondering if there are many here who feel unable to look at themselves in mirrors, or pictures of themselves? I never look at myself in the mirror - or rather, I can't look at the whole of my face at any one time... I can look...

Is there anyone else here who feels anxious when they're left alone? My husband has had to go to the dentist today, and I'm feeling anxious with him gone. Since he has social phobia too, we usually spend 100% of our time together. The most we've been apart is for a few minutes if he goes to the...

What's the point in starting up a thread just to attack someone? Particularly on a social phobia forum, where everyone is sensitive enough about being judged and attacked by "Normal" people. This place is supposed to be for support. If someone wants to go on about one particular issue, let...

Beauty Of the Heart Words conveying meaning, such emotion. Deeper than the widest, deepest ocean. Calming, filling a soul with happiness; A soothing, warming, loving caress. A rose shows beauty wondrously true, Though short lived and frail, ever born anew: Each new bloom different and yet the...

Delusions To me it seems that there’s more than one Suffering from a strong delusion. They say I’m “great and wondrous.” I can’t see the need for fuss. I’m just me, weird and insane. Moths flying around my brain. Oh, they are so nice to be so kind About my inferior mind. I’m not sweet, and I’m...

Ugh, I feel a hypocrite posting this, since although it ends positively I'm not actually positive while posting it lol.. Oh well, It's how I'd like to feel though... Death And Rebirth The monsters rage. I’m inside my cage Imprisoned there for now. Make me feel That this is real There is no...

Well, I was feeling negative again last night, so I wrote this - I didn't put any thought into structure or anything, so it's literally how it flowed from my brain... Ah well, and hey ho. Emotions (or Pendulum) Moods swinging like the pendulum of a clock Backwards and forwards, an endless...

Okay, this poem was said to me in a dream last night by a most brilliant online friend of mine, that I care a great deal for. I take no credit for it lol. I can't take credit for a dream or for words not spoken by me hehe. Though I'll let my sub-conscious take credit for it lol: He brushes her...

Wrote this today as I'm having one of my "I'm hideous and my image should never be inflicted upon anyone" days. It's not very good, unfortunately, and doesn't have an even rhythm, though I suppose that fits with the disjointed way my briain works: Ugly “Don’t look at me Leave me alone.”...

Well, after spending some time in the garden this afternoon, I felt happy and contented, so I scribbled this rather poor excuse for a poem in less than ten minutes: Spring I have never much cared for Spring. It was just a transition; A changing From Winter’s Cold, yet beautiful isolation, To...

LONG story, sorry, please keep with me... Well, I have agoraphobia, though I feel like a fraud for classing it as such, since I don't believe it's true agoraphobia... In my case it's caused by dizziness, I always have it to some degree or another, but it's definitely made worse by stress...