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I never remember a single instance when my parents ever taught me to stand up for myself. I wondered about others here.

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One of my bosses is a jerk. I feel like he picks on me. I already posted the other day about how he likes to make me blush everyday. Recap: so the other day he said it is his goal everyday to get me to blush, how it is so easy. He laughed at me and got my coworkers to look at me while I was red...

What are some of your coping strategies while you are in public? What are the things that keep you going so that you don't panic while in public? Mine are all bad habits I can't seem to break: - repellant eye contact - ignore people unless they speak directly to me - turn myself off, zone out I...

Do you often find yourself sitting in the fetal position with your knees up to your chin? I do. It is the most comfortable way for me to sit. I find it to be calming because I feel warm and almost protected. I just wondered if this might be related to my anxiety.

Ugh. At work today my manager teased me and said that every day I come into work he likes to give me a hard time just to watch me turn red. He wouldn't stop and then got other coworkers to look at me. So yeah, I turned beat red. :oops: He told me that my new nickname was going to be "Red."...

Does anyone else feel angry almost all the time? Or this sense of general frustration? I often feel pissed off because I cannot properly express myself. I have certain subconcious limits to how much I will speak. The extent of most of the things I will say are very generic responses like, "Oh...

i'm sitting here, alone, having a glass of wine. it's almost time for bed but i still can't relax. it's always this way. *chugs wine* :x maybe a bath will help.

surf the same few websites over in circles? I can sit there and circle the same websites over and over all day, just to check and see if anyone has updated and be perfectly content ignoring the real world that way.

Does anyone here find exercise to help their anxiety? Do you have a routine? I'm one of those lazy people who hates exercise! I will clean, cook, do yardwork, etc, but exercising for the sake of exersizing? Blah! Well, I am taking a class now so I have to. Today I really exerted myself and I...

Having AvPD I often find people take me as a snob. This is so frustrating. SO frustrating. People talk to me but I have nothing to say back, my mind goes blank. It's like stage fright. I try and hide the SA but it just feels like it backfires. Below is my experience from today. Today at work...

This is it. I definitely am AvPD. A little about me... I'm in my late twenties and suffer from AvPD. Yes I would call it suffering because, since I cannot be myself around people, I think so many people have the wrong perception of me. And that is sad. I often feel dismissed as lazy...