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I used to believe that I would have social skills and be comfortable people someday. That day is not here yet, and when I look in the mirror I can't believe how old I look. Even if I were to acquire social skills and comfort with people tomorrow, I would still look like an old person. I feel...

Someone sent me a chat message, and I closed it by mistake before reading it. Now I don't know how to open the message thread again for chat. Can anyone help me?

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." This will mean different things to different people. For me, it means giving up on the mental health professions, including psychotherapy and drugs. But it does not mean giving up on people. I still want to be more social.

I have had bad experiences in the mental health system, especially in psychiatry. These experiences were so bad -- and so weird -- that some people even think I must be making it up. Unfortunately, I am not. Mental health professionals, including psychiatrists only pretend to know what they...

Please say it ain't so. People have long said that I am mentally retarded, and they obviously don't trust me either. Now maybe I know why. It's because of how I look. What's really troubling though is that the article suggests a correlation, presumably not absolute but statistical...

I am gay, but fail to connect with other people. All the talk of gay marriage in the news media depresses me, because I feel that it isn't even an issue for me. I hate being reminded of it all the time. I wonder if anyone else feels the same way.

Has anyone here had a successful a na lysis? If so, could you please tell us what made it successful? Could you also explain how it helped you? I had tons of psycho a na lytically oriented psychotherapy, and got nothing from it. I even view my failure in a na lysis as somehow tightly connected...

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[Somehow, I managed to post this in completely the wrong place a little while ago.] Has anyone here had a successful analysis? If so, could you please tell us what made it successful? Could you also explain how it helped you? I had tons of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, and got...

Has anyone here had a successful analysis? If so, could you please tell us what made it successful? Could you also explain how it helped you? I had tons of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, and got nothing from it. I even view my failure in analysis as somehow tightly connected to...

I am 49 years old, and have never been part of a family. That may sound like an outrageous thing to say. Wasn't I part of a family as a child? Not really, but I don't want to elaborate. I'm asking for any knowledge anyone has about clinical literature. Does anyone know of psychotherapeutic...

It's a delight to learn that all those years of psychotherapy have caused my brain to light up differently. Now if I could find something to make me feel less rotten. Ronald Pies, MD, a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University and Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School...

I am 49, and I keep thinking that surely I won't be avoidant for much longer. Surely, I won't be avoidant when I'm 55. And surely surely surely I won't be avoidant when I'm 70! But when I was 20, I could hardly believe that I would still be avoidant by the age of 30. Certainly not, given all...

Could this be why some of us never progressed in therapy? Rethinking the Diagnosis of Depression | World of Psychology

Were the Victorians cleverer than us? Research indicates a decline in brainpower and reflex speed | Mail Online Human intelligence 'peaked thousands of years ago and we've been on an intellectual and emotional decline ever since' - Science - News - The Independent I'm just trying to spark a...

I am 48 years old, and have almost no friends. Hardly anyone likes me. I have had over a decade of psychotherapy with no positive result. A few therapists even refused to work with me, because they find me offensive. This is a general pattern: many people find me offensive and exhibit...

I'm not sure if this is a new approach or just the same old same old (i.e., "force yourself to be social; you'll see that it's great!"). But I thought this might interest people on the forum. How Do I Overcome Shyness? : Indiana University Southeast

I'm afraid this thread will sound like a joke to many people. I hope at least a few people realize that I am actually serious. I am 48, and had a serious relationship that ended 15 years ago. I keep thinking that I want to be in a relationship, but then it suddenly occurred to me that I don't...

Do I have to hold myself down? [ Fisher Wallace Stimulator: Behind the Do-It-Yourself Shock Therapy - The Daily Beast ]

I had many years of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with several different therapists. I never really knew what the point was, although I did my bit by free-associating about early childhood traumas. It was depressing, but I figured it would eventually relieve something. Unfortunately, it never...