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Boy, am I glad I found this website. I'm a 16 year old girl with social phobia that basically runs my life. I really hate school; I can't bear to talk to anyone, I feel awkward the whole time and well, you know, with all the importance of popularity in highschool, my lack of people skills...

Hi, im going through a panic attack from anxiety. My doctor gives Me zoloft, and gaba (gamma-aminobutyric acid) for relief. I can never sleep because its my stomach i'm always afraid of. I have nervs that i might throw up. It seems to stress me too. I'm afraid to through up. Thats why i have...

Anybody here tried Zoloft? Paxil/Aropax absolutely sucked, mind you I just quit it cold turkey...stupid me, it was like I had terrible flu for 2 weeks, black spots, so light sensitive I had to wear sunglassess at night with just a 25watt bulb on. Cipramil makes me sleepy. Fluoxetine/prozac...

Wow. I feel so alone in here.

I am not sure if I have SA, at least not the official definition. All my life I've had basically no friends, I had two in high school, and (in college) I haven't had any relationships whatsoever for the last four years. I'm basically the biggest loser you'll never meet, though people tend to...

:( I recently moved from Los Angeles, California to Birmingham, Alabama within the USA. All the newness has put my anxiety out of control. Alabama is a beautiful state, but this sp does not allow me to enjoy myself anywhere. My husband and I moved here because he got a good employment...

Hi I sufferd from panic atacks and generalized anxiety disorder since 2001. I tried paxil for 2 years, effexor for 1 year. The simptoms were better, but not disappeard. I found 2 e-books that helped me a lot, more that paxil and effexor together. Here there are the links...

This is going to seem strange to some people. I am male, 49 and have been married for 25 years with 4 grown up children. For the last 16 years, I have run a mobile disco at weekends, making not much money, and not doing any other job during the week; avoiding one due to S.F, depression etc...

I know the more pressure I put on myself to participate in class and to be with others the worse I get and the worse I feel. I've alwas been painfully shy. I am not like this with relatives or friends I feel safe with. I tend to feel inadequate around people that I think are superior than me or...

I just dont know what to do...I only think happy thoughts/memories of what i do for a living, but when i get right down to preparing for going back, my chest burns, head hurts, i get dizzy and want to scream.......What do i do,,,,,i seem to be real ok when i can just do non pressure things, and...

hi, i was at a company and there was a training class. everyone was so close together as a team and i felt kind of left out in there. even the instrcutor was like that. why did they act this way?

Born to Lose Hello fellow Losers, I'm new here, and this is my beginnning rant. During most of my life, I had always believed that despite a few exceptions (as in the mentally retarded/downs syndrome people), a person generally had the ability to succeed and overcome all obstacles based on...

Oh how i feel for yu...I gotta tell ya, i didn't invent mine either but it's killing me,in yet it's so unbelievable to others. My chest has been burning for hours just today because i havejust heard that by 2-12 i have to return to work or im out of a job.(i've been out for 5 months because of a...

Social Phobics Anonymous (For all types of Social Anxiety): Social Phobics Anonymous (also called S.P.A.) is a network of free support groups for people with Social Phobia and other Social Anxiety problems. SPA uses a 12 step recovery approach, adapted from A.A. and O.C.A to recover from our...

Can you cure Social Phobia by reading books, or do you deffinately need a professional psychologyst?

I went to a bar tonight with my friend Marc. It seemed pretty cool at first but even after a few drinks I still felt really shy and like everyone was whispering and talking shit about me amongst themselves about how I dress, how I walked, talked and everything. I tried dancing but even still no...

I'm 19 and I've had anxiety for damn near 5 years. I haven't accomplished anything this entire time. I have anxiety attacks when I'm out somewhere, and when I'm going to be in a car for over 5 minutes. I don't even have a job. There are things that I want, but I'm not going to ask my mom or dad...

It seems that most women with shyness can easily get into a realtionship with any guy they want. Yet for us shy guys, not even the most shyiest, uglyiest, fattest girl on the planet would be interested in us. :(

Hi my friends, I'd like to know if any of you guys suffer both social phobia and gynecomastia(anormal glandular enlargement of male breast). If it's so, its posible that both disease have a common hormonal disorder. I'm a male of 25, who has social phobia since I remember. Also, I have...

Sorry, I'm a bit intoxivated being it new years, but I must share my weed experience being anyone like my self reads it... being very depressed and anxous the last few years .. and with trying different things like weed,alcohol, weed, extacy, speed.. i didnt really find anything that helps too...