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Like to people who always see you as a loner or loser, you want to show that you're not that way, by somehow showing you do have friends and an interesting life? Basically being pretentious? I feel like being dragged into this a lot, more recently I have tried spiritual teaching that taught me...

Does anyone else experience horrible anger attacks? Sometimes when something repeatedly goes wrong on the computer, I just completely flip out, curse, shout, punch pillows. Not in front of people though. It frightens me and I fear that one day I will flip in front of people.

Excerpt from a Podcast that Oprah did featuring Eckhart Tolle a couple of years ago.

Some moments i have such a low energy i just feel flatout miserable and would rather just push everyone away with their bull$hit laughter and sociality. I cant even force myself to smile at these moments. The trouble is I cant control this returning mood of grouchiness and they always come at...

So I've pretty much avoided going into the "common" areas when people are there for a while. They noticed this and they have been talking about it (one of them told me this). I feel so observed, talked about and I feel like everyone knows I'm depressed off my a$$. This only makes the gap for me...

When I'm walking on the street, alone in broad daylight I always have immense difficulty with facial expressions and body language. I don't know how to look, what face to pull, how to walk, and I feel vulnerable. I usually try not to care and just focus on my thoughts or whatever, but it always...

Do you have difficulty sometimes in relationships in the sense that you feel like you're playing out a script? That there's no spontaneity in what you say and what the other says, there are certain established boundries and typical things a person says and does? I have this sometimes when I'm...

I have had tremedous difficulty with this, especially during my depression. I have created a shell around me that tries to keep up a "brave" facade (afraid of opening himself up) but I've had enough of it. Going to the therapist for the first time really opened me up in a way that will...

Do you most of the time communicate in English on the internet? Do you feel this is detrimental to your native language communication skills? I do a bit. Sometimes I even THINK in English instead of my own language. I think I'm going to have to quit English websites for a while.

Would the social anxiety and depression thing become so trivial that you would just instantly overcome it and would you do the things you normally wouldn't? Or do you think you'd sit out those months, pretty much the same way?

So I'm having an intake soon. But you have to make an additional payment of 200 euro for mental health care. Even just having an intake costs 100 euro. Even if the intake doesn't give rise to additional visits. Yay privatization of the mental health market. I'm already severly in debt, so I...

I often have things planned that I really need to do, but I have that feeling of "I'm not ready". Things like calling a doctor, meeting up with a teacher, just paying the bills, calling a relative or friend.. I hate this constant procrastination, and it always ends up to the point where the...

I've always suspected mental health wasn't only a mental thing, but also a physiological thing. I find I'm at my best mentally when I eat well. Make sure we all get the proper vitamins, minerals and acids. It's good to remind ourselves of this, because when we're under stress, eating well often...

It's such a nightmare. Walking around in my old severly outdated uncomfortable clothes, which are very sweaty because I'm nervous. NEVER finding the right sort of clothes I'm looking for, never being able to find something that just fits right. The salespeople hounding me. The awful mirrors...

Is it really that weird of social phobics to be a bit scared of people? Look at all the collective failings humanity has gone through, from the Holocaust to the Jonestown mass suicides. Just read the newspaper, read about all the wars, acts of extremism, crimes, the frauds, the thefts, the...

You always hear advice of that we MUST HAVE COURAGE, we must GET OVER IT, basically the Western way of dealing with things. Basically making yourself into a hero who faces great adversities he or she must overcome. But I've also heard opposite sounds, more in the spiritual corner (Buddhism)...

I have. It scares me to even think how much it is, and how I will have to pay this off. For years I didn't work and had a student loan, thanks to anxiety, fatigue and depression. Not having parents, or much guidance or help from family also quite ruined me financially, nobody really watched...

Always when people are are messing with me, or being rude, I NEVER come up with the right comeback. However, after a while I replay everything, and know the EXACT right thing to say back. I wish I could train myself somehow to be more witty when I need to be. It's frustrating. The number of...

I was at the fish-stand earlier today (boy my life is one big adventure) and there was some other customer next to me, big gorilla of a guy, red-tanned from the sun, baseball cap, sports jeans, big mouth, kind of friendly-agressively looking around himself, you know, all in all a bit of an...

What I've found difficult in trying to overcome depression and anxiety is finding what exactly is the thin line between trying to think positive and denial. Where exactly does one draw the line? Because we're constantly reminded to "think positively" , deny negative thoughts, but at the same...