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For me, I like the sun and the birds, but I kind of dislike how overly happy and cheery people start being all of a sudden. It can often get a bit too much for me being the grumpy bastard that I am sometimes.:D But you know, overall it isn't bad. You just have to get in the sun and enjoy it...

I recently decided to take on a healthier lifestyle and watch what I eat, as I suffer from daytime fatigue and that may be a heavy reason for depression/anxiety. Even the simplest of tasks seem overwhelming because of this fogginess and tiredness. I looked up a lot of stuff on the internet on...

I am graduating in a visual media art school, but I am severly stuck and feel like I'm creatively dead as a result of a long time of depression and anxiety. Nothing good comes out anymore I feel, when I draw stuff. It's like I lost my passion and have nothing inside me anymore that I want to...

This is kind of weird, but ever since I was a child, I used to imitate people from movies, etc. I used to pretend I was Blackadder or some Disney villain. When I got in my teens I wanted to be Che Guevara. Well, not really being that character or person, but trying to emulate their personality...

Right now I haven't had contact with what's left of my family for almost a year. I even forgot to wish people well on their birthday because of my ongoing problems and haven't replied to some facebook messages. I can't even explain why. They must think I am a horrible person who doesn't care. I...

I try to exercise regularly but I have trouble breathing while exercising that may be social anxiety related. Like when jogging, and I pass someone, I become very self concious, my breathing and heartbeat starts becoming irregular, and I almost subconciously hold my breath in. It's like a panic...

I mostly do my best avoiding getting into contact the vain cocky fratboy type guys, but sometimes at parties or in daily life you meet them. They will do anything to prove their alpha male status, even at the cost of others. I often have these kind of subtle confrontations with pompuous...

Does anyone else have this? I often cannot be bothered with asking other people about their lives and interacting. It's like I already have a predestined path in my mind of how the conversation will go, you know, those silly forced talks about the weather and how are you, and I just can't be...

Whenever there's social pressure on me, I turn extra clumsy. You try your best to act casual and nonchalant, and then whoooop, your hand makes a spastic movement and there's tea or beer all over the table and then there's that dead painful silence where everyone is looking at you, in a concerned...

The world is so filled to the brim with negative, loud, cynical, arrogant people that I'm sometimes totally awed when I meet humble, friendly, genuine people. Like this busdriver on a tourbus, who was a total gent to all the passengers the entire trip, even offered my friend to hop on the bus...

How to Achieve the Creative State of Flow | PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement I think social anxiety often prevents me from reaching that state. I get too distracted by my ego, by thinking about the way I am presenting myself to the world, get obsessed with my dealings with others...

I've been listening to some motivational speakers, like Les Brown or Zig Ziglar and I often find myself temporarily lifted up and spirited, to get up and do something with my life, but then I kinda fall back into the same old habits and thinking patterns. It's like setting myself up for defeat...

Warning this is a bit disgusting: I've been walking around with a congested ear for about 2 years, since I constantly put off going to the doctor, thinking it's not really necessary, etc. Two days ago I finally went to the doctor to have my ear flushed out but it's not out yet, because the...

Although I'm shy I can get along with most people and don't feel uncomfortable being around them once the 'ice is broken'. But there's this one person, a girl, I just can't quite..fathom. I've known her for about 2 years now, she is a roommate, and she always manages to make me feel...

So everyone knows me as kind of a sensitive, shy nice guy, but I definately feel I have (yes this sounds pretentious) quite a dark side with humor, that I'm afraid to unleash because subconciously I don't want to come across as rude or politically incorrect. I feel that throughout the years I...

I just had one of my really really bad moments of being fed up with thoughts and emotions and feeling depressed and decided I would just go for a run in the dark. It felt liberating and I'm even in the mood for life/people again as sad as that sounds. I don't know if it's some chemical thing...

Probably a sign I should get out more. I recently cut back on caffeine intake because I find that it causes terrible moodswings and makes me too nervous to work on my grad project. One of the side effects (because I drank so much) is that I feel extremely sleepy all the time and have extreme...

I think I will do an experiment. I've been going daily on the internet for the past 5/6 years now, and incidentally that's also the time in which I became a parttime reclusive. I don't think internet is the reason for my SA or AVP, but I do think I have a mental addiction and dependency to it...

I feel like I sometimes have what I would call misanthropic episodes. For example, in my shared housing, outside of my door, I hear my male roommates (kind of boorish, loud guys) talking, laughing etc. and I have all these angry thoughts and am generally annoyed at how loud and inconsiderate...

Should we SA-ers learn to dance with life more? Dare to be naughty and bad? Are we so uptight because we feel we must be perfect to fulfill some non-existent conditioned society ideal, and therefore can never truly be our creative selves? Do we care too much for other people's opinions? Do we...