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I find it really hard, but especially the free weights room. The guys there are huge and tough looking. The women are incredible, lycra clad and limber. Last night I had the double effect of the free weights room with a confident assertive guy spotting and trying to talk to. I was really...

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I'm curious what people think about art, being an artist and social anxiety. I have come to realise that its my calling. I know that sounds pretentious. Whats interesting to me, and something of a personal revelation, is that, any kind of activity by myself, I crave others and feel the...

i haven't quite got this all straight, but I think I have the general idea down..... as follows. dreams are REM (rapid eye mastibation). they serve to rid the brain of toxins or some ####. when you are depressed, your brain generates alot more of these (cortisol is one I think). So you dream...

I've found its really good, cos when I talk to myself, then I don't say negative stuff, instead distracting myself by talking shit, making observations or talking about recent or future events. Its better when by myself, but I have done it more in public recently, as like a desensitisation...

what if, what if you learnt how not to care about social rejection, because you learnt how to laugh at yourself being dissed? isn't humor the enemy of angst? Would this work? Could seeing yourself as a joke be a good stepping stone to social confidence? This is not a new idea, but then, I...

I wanted to reread some stuff that he had wrote on this forum but it has disappeared from all of his posts, and instead they all say: "... Last edited by nickabcuk on Sun Oct 09, 2005 2:25 am; edited 1 time in total " did I miss something here??? :( Vincent.

Don't know that I'm any wiser thought. I said to a guy at work, 42 year old South African man, "Do you think it true, that knowledge is turned into experience through action?" or something like that. He said yes, I queried, "how can you take action on something abstract like philosophy or...

Why not put it out there to compare and to discuss specfic fears in their individual thoughts. My main ones: "I have nothing to say. I'll just say something obvious and weird. It's better to say anything than nothing. Not saying anything for a prolonged amount of time is social suicide. If they...

've stumbled across a book and concept of late that is intriguing and providing a greater incite into my personality and anxiety than anything else I have ever come across. It's called the Enneagram, and has been developed by pschologists as a system for classifying and describing personality...

Ive read that drugs, reduce the negative chemicals in your head, or increase the positive ones. But these postive ones can be gained through external experiences and internal thinking. For example, love. So with drugs, you flood your brain with positive chemicals, but there is no cause for...

Hate, it builds up in me, boils without an outlet, my mind is a pressure cooker without a valve. It's set off by seeing people, especially happy faces. It's justified I feel, why not? I think social anxious people have alot to be angry about,..why is it that we are seeking out the solutions to...

Another burning question: 8O By the way, thanku to all those that replied to my prior rants, I'm very impressed by the level of writing and the sophistication of ideas here, I think that we, with social anxiety, are probably more articulate and more self aware than otherwise, a gift of sorts...

Some are born with SA, I would number myself there. From the outset, social contact of any form has been avoided. My understanding is that social skills are learned like anything else. Obviously more complex, there is more trial and error and more to learn. Social learning continues over one's...

I look around and see all these people moving around, functioning, and SOCIALISING oblivious to my existance, which makes no sense, because reality is only from my perspective, if my perspective ends, then so does reality. Anyway, my point is that this is intensely depressing to appreciate this...