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This is the best thing I've read in a good while. Really inspirational and eye-opening stuff. I wish I could show this to all my friends and family without fear. TIME TO RETHINK MENTAL ILLNESS from 10 Feb 2009 - mirror.co.uk

At the moment I think I am experiencing a sense of apathy. When I think of the people that I love I don't feel it. However I know that I love them and that if anything was to happen to them I would be devastated but I don't feel it? I don't feel that feeling when your stomach drops etc when...

You may have seen an earlier post by me about my sudden change in mood. Literally a week ago I was depressed/anxious and socially anxious. In the space of week my mood has completely flipped. I am now really quite optimistic, happy and at ease with life. However I feel as if it's a little bit...

has happened to me over the past few days. Since around Friday afternoon to be exact... I've felt normal! and yesterday and today I've felt happy. Like virtually no anxiety (social or general). Maybe even a little bit too happy. It's strange. I think i've forgotten what feeling totally happy...

As the anxious war wages inside my head I am learning more about how it works and how it effects me. What I have discovered over the past few days is that when I chronically worry about something else (become absorbed in thought/worry about a topic other than social situations/anxiety) I...

Anybody got any tips for this? In the space of two weeks I have gone from having a Brain Tumour to Schizophrenia! It's real scary stuff. At the time it is so hard to convince myself otherwise and I end up getting so worked up about it all! I am currently convinced I have predromal schizophrenia...

I'm going to put some bloody effort in! I am going to be positive, I am going to make eye contact and greet as many people as possible. I am going to ask them how their day was and make small talk and enjoyable conversation. I am going to be bubbly and fun to be around. I am likely to fail at...

I sometimes feel that people think I am a weirdo. I make quite a few people uncomfortable when I'm with them due to my lack of communication skills, eye contact and due to me not exactly conforming with "social norms". I have a Chemistry teacher who won't even look at me and often won't come...

Do you find that due to your anxiety you get sick a bit more often than other people? Like it weakens your immune system? I am finding that at the moment - I have had cold after cold and bouts of flu and now chronic sinusitis. I think it's due to my constant worrying and lack of sleep. Anybody...

I've got a girl coming over later and she's due here in like an hour! I feel quite nervous! What if I don't know what to say? What if there's an awkward silence and we're just sitting there like looking at eachother D: Urgh. I hope this goes well! I am so bad at 1 on 1 conversations D: Ahhhhhhhh

I often find that good conversationalists often share things with other people about themselves. It seems to me like there's nothing about me to share. Or nothing around me I see that I can share with people. Although I know that's a complete and utter lie. How do I get past this? I'm not quite...

whenever I am conversing with people sometimes I'll start being completely aware of myself in that situation. It is like an OCD style intrusive thought that is like "You're socialising, you have SA, you can't do this". And it's so hard to forget about it. And because you are thinking about it...

I've become quite hypochondriatic again (if that's a word). At the moment I think I have a brain tumour (lol) I'll be laughing about this in a week or two. But right now it seems very believable due to a lot of symptoms I'm having or think I'm having... anyway Do any of you find you jumble...

Anyone else find they are often called arrogant or similar terms? I am often called either arrogant or pretentious and I really don't understand why! I don't see myself above any one else and I try and treat everyone equally. I always greet people with a smile when I see them etc. What I think...

Does anyone find they space out a lot? Whether in the middle of a conversation or just when in a social situation? I find I tend to become massively consumed in my thoughts and just forget everything around me. I guess this is bed when someone starts to talking to you and you're just like whaaa...

I am having surgery in the morning to remove a facial mole that quite possibly was the cause of my SA and Depression. Well... not the mole itself - the people in my lower school and secondary school. I was bullied physically and verbally, left alone and isolated with no friends at times and made...

is so unnatural to me. It is alien. I am meant to have a response just ready - in an instant. Yet nothing is there! Nothing. So I force something out. And the conversation dies. And I feel inadequate - and they find it unbearable to talk to me. I've spoken to people about this - and they say try...

Got talking to a beautiful girl. She lives in the other end of the city though and I barely see her. But we got talking on facebook and I get on with her quite well. I'm thinking about meeting up with her perhaps for a night on the tiles but I'd be so scared in case I have nothing to say. I have...

Ever Dream This Man? Check it out. Apparently many people dream of this guy and he gives them advice on life and stuff. Have any of you dreamt of him here? It's kinda freaking me out... I bet he'll be in my dreams now!

This interview and virtually all of her interviews remind me of me. She is so shy and tense. The way she smiles at everything said to her. The way sometimes she doesn't form "proper" responses. The conversation does not flow at all. She'll ask questions to him so she feels she has something to...