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know the feeling? i feel like i was born on the wrong planet, too much energy, no common sense whatsoever, feel alien, no patience for being polite, no desire to even live the cute sentimental life of normal people, no desire to play the game of life, getting, spending, paying other people for...

FOR REAL here's a thread where you can leave the congrats

I always study people in the reflections on the windows. If i stared at them as carefully as i do the reflections, it'd probably really freak them out, i'd seem like a really creey person, but i like to see the facial expressions, and the way they hold their hands, and the way a person sits, and...

Go waste your life! right now, do something completely useless, or just sit and do nothing. because life aint about you! its about life! its not a giant self improvement project! have you seen how many shelves are dedicated to self-improvment books? its disgusting! its like having a telescope...

how about getting a decent boat, drifting out in to the middle of the ocean, and living off fish. could that cure social phobia? you could have a good chat with the fish before you eat it. i dont know how you'd get salt free water to drink. i guess everyone has to go some way. maybe take a...

Do you guys have a favorite hiding spot? Mine's the third floor of the library. Its the floor with foreign language books and out dated science textbooks. No one ever goes up there! Ever. I'm considering building a book fort up there with Herman Hesse novels and the French section. I dont think...

"Pessimism is a sign of decay, optimism is a sign of superficiality; "tragic optimism" is the mood of the strong man who seeks intensity and extent of experience, even at the cost of woe, and is delighted to find that strife is the law of life" -Will Durant smart guy

i thought'd be a neat idea to have a few embarrassing story posts caused by being shy, so you know your not the only one doin that kind of stuff. first a funny one, i got locked inside an old public restroom and was too shy to get the attention of anyone at the sinks. I thought i might have to...

If there was a landscape inside your head what would it look like? You know, your mind being a place filled with memories, images, symbols of religion and culture. sort of like creating a phantasmagoria or planning your own salvador dali esq painting. theres no wrong way to do it. this is kinda...

How does caffeine affect you? For me, its the cure all that gets rid of all that ails me for about four hours. I built up too much of a tolerance for it though. such a shame. When i have presentations, i take a 300 milligram pill and im good to go, low anxiety. But after it wears off I'm back to...

On second thought, scratch that. Sorry for starting the thread. Its probably not helpful to make fun of the old treatment formula. Sarcasm is really cheap. Sorry for using it. You guys know what I mean. Treatment does not offer any immediate relief and sometimes you really need that. Thanks to...

Would you be a recluse if you could pull it off successfully? Or another way to phrase it. If you had a choice between being a comfortable recluse or a fighting sa for the rest of your life, which would you choose?

If there were some sort of colony the good news since everyone would have it, no one would be considered abnormal or mentally ill! Now there's a guaranteed cure. It actually the only one that sounds plausible. I kid you not, the therapist i go to has resorted to waving a wand in my face. Maybe...

I'm sick of being so deathly nervous around people. I've lived this way for all my life and I feel like ive reached my threshold for tolerating it anymore. lf the doctors dont figure out how to fix it real soon, Im going to have to find another way out before I go from quiet crazy to loud crazy...

Do you guys think there are any advantages to being a social phobic? Is there a bright side to social anxiety? I think there must be.

I dont mean to beat a dead horse, but we all know the whole bad parenting, fear of rejection/embarrassment, bad genes, plus anxiety around people recipe for sa. Do you think there is something else going on? Whats your theory?

I live right next to a huge city. Recently I've had to go into town a lot. I interact with more people than id even like to look at. Every time I come home, I feel like I've just been hit by a semi. Its like sensory overload. I cant seem to get used to it. Cant we all just start some quiet...

How accurate do you think the definition of sa is? Do you think its off the mark? How would you define it differently? A persistent fear of one or more social or performance situations in which the person is exposed to unfamiliar people or to possible scrutiny by others. The individual fears...

There is nothing in this world I hate more than interviews. They are the devise of the devil.

So the nature of social anxiety/phobia is you feel inhibited. is that the right spelling? Do you ever make radical plans or plan radical changes to counter that problem? I have! One of them is to go to best university that will let me crawl in, get a phD with student loans, drag the process out...