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Does depression feel worse to you after it's been gone for a while and comes back? Since I started taking Abilify over two years ago, I've rarely faced depression. But once in a while, about once every 9-12 months, it starts wearing off and the depression comes back. In all honesty, it's NOT...

I have this story I've started writing but I just don't know what to do next. Please read and if you have any suggestions of where I should take the character immediately after this, I may use some of your suggestions in the story. It's on wattpad. Life In Death - Wattpad But if you don't...

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone here remembers me or knows me. I don't recognize most of the names here so I think a lot of the older members might have stopped posting (like I did for a long time). You may also know me from other sites using other names: lyricalillusions mysocalledself...

Has anyone tried ACT therapy? If so, how did it go for you? I have never really tried any formal therapy, save for a bit of CBT which did not help at all. I am considering going to a new place if my insurance will pay and get ACT if they offer it. If not, then formal CBT. My current, and only...

Hello, most of you probably don't know me, but some of you may remember me. I used to be a very frequent poster to this board. Tonight is my first time being here in a long time. Well, I was just wondering, is anyone here diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in conjunction with...

Is anyone here from Northern Ohio? Like, Northeast or Northwest Ohio. Cleveland, Lorain, Elyria, Amherst, etc.? I am from the area and have been trying to make progress. I've gotten much better over the last year due to a medication I was put on but now, I am so incredibly lonely because I've...

It's taking a lot of courage to post this because I'm really putting myself out there. I'm 30 years old, a lesbian (although I occasionally have crushes on girly gay guys and male characters on TV shows), and COMPLETELY inexperienced and COMPLETELY isolated from the GLBT community. I have an...

Do you "sound" depressed? Someone once told me, when I was about 18 years old, that I sound depressed. I'm still not sure what she meant by that, but ever since then, I've been self-conscious of my voice. I've never liked it, but was never self-conscious of it til then. I'm always worried...

Do you hate yourself? It seems to me that a lot of people with social anxiety, etc. seem to hate, or at least severely dislike, themselves. I've been on a lot of social anxiety forums where people will blatantly say that they hate themselves. These are all very good people & I think everyone...

Am I the only one here who doesn't find themselves unattractive? Something that really saddens me on every single SA/SP & similar sites & forums that I have visited is that everyone seems to find themselves to be repulsively, repellingly ugly. Just from seeing most of your pictures, I can tell...

Do you ever miss people that you used to be friends with but now no longer are? Do you ever think about them & wonder if they think about you & if they do, what they think about you? I do. I think about the few friends I had back in childhood. One is now a paramedic. The last I heard, another...

Does anyone have any recommendations for good sci-fi or fantasy television series? All I do mainly is watch sci-fi (or fantasy) tv series over & over obsessively. So far, just this past year or so, I've watched the entire series of: "Battlestar Galactica (the re-imagined series)" "Stargate...

Do people ever tell you that if you leave the house more often it will become easier and that if you're around people more often it will become easier? Basically, exposure therapy. Do you agree with this? Or, Does it annoy you? It annoys me. People leave me these kinds of messages & comments...

Do you think a class (series of classes or group sessions) in social skills would help you? If the goal of the class was to teach people social skills? I think something like this would help me, at least a bit, but there is nothing similar close enough to me to get to & they are all aimed at...

Does anyone do any weird things to cope with anxiety while in public? Specifically those with social anxiety, agoraphobia, etc.? I do. Besides daydreaming constantly, I always take pictures of everything with my phone. For some reason, taking pictures & staring at the world through the little...

What is/are your favorite movie(s) that originated from a book or a series of books? My number one favorite is probably Masterpiece Theatre's 2006 version of the book "Jane Eyre" written by Charlotte Bronte. Some others that I love are: "Oliver!" (1968), a musical version of Charles Dickens...

Do any of you have parents who never seem to care about you? Specifically if you're living with them, but even if you no longer do. For me, I've lived with my mom my whole life (28 years) & have been taking care of her since she had a bad stroke nine years ago. The thing is, no matter how badly...

The title probably sounds weird, but I was wondering.... Does anyone else feel like the real you is trapped inside of yourself? Like you can't be yourself & the real you just won't come out & is buried inside of you somewhere? This might not make sense to a lot (or most) people, but ever since...

Just post something you like, alphabetically (A, B, C, D,..... etc.) in images instead of words. Here's mine (A):

I know that a lot of people with SA have problems with people thinking others don't like them. So I was wondering... Do you have reasons to think that people don't like you, or do you just feel that way because of SA/low self-esteem, etc.? I have legitimate reasons to know people don't like me...