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This happens to me with random people all the time. I never really understand how to jump the gap between acquaintance and friend. It seems huge to me, and when I think back to the friends I had in the past, I can never understand how or why we became friends. The problem I'm having with this...

I was supposed to start an online university in January. Problem number 1: I didn't want to do uni, I've been doing it for 3 years and I'm so done. I recently got engaged and pregnant, and my fiance and I both decided that it would be better if I were a stay at home mom, so really there is no...

Anyone else go completely crazy when they're living with someone else? I'm stuck living with my MIL at the moment and perhaps indefinitely because she has a lot of anxiety and attachment issues with her son (she got anxiety attacks and depression last time he moved out). I absolutely can't stand...

One of my biggest problems is that whenever I am faced with an anxiety-provoking situation, I avoid it like the plague even when it has to get done and not doing is going to create a huge snowball affect and get me into an even bigger problem. For example: Last year I had student teaching for...

Sorry, lengthy post ahead: I accidentally blew off my florist for my wedding the other day. I was supposed to meet her at her house and she sent me directions in an email. We have a GPS system in our car so I didn't even look at the directions and just punched her address into the GPS and off I...

Hi all, I was wondering if any one else has absolutely no clue if they are attractive or not. I have never ever been able to determine if I was good-looking, and used to spend hours in front of the mirror trying to figure it out. I don't really look like other people who are considered...

I've had social anxiety since middle school, but recently I have been discovering that I may have Asperger's. I have a lot of AS traits, but am having a hard time figuring out whether it's AS or my anxiety. For example, I get very overwhelmed in public areas and when too many people are talking...

Hi everyone, I'm having surgery in a month, and need to get a blood test prior to it. My mom, who is the biggest control freak and a doctor, will be seeing my results. I stopped Paxil in March, will it...show up on my blood test? I feel like this is a really dumb question, but I'm sort of...

Okay, I am mortified because today while I was at the mall with my mom and my sister, my knee snapped and I fell and couldn't get up. I don't think anyone saw me, thank God, but my mom and my sister didn't know that I was really hurt. It was so hard for me to ask them for help, and I ended up...

I'm freaking out right now because of a misunderstanding I had with a new friend of mine. I thought he said that he worked somewhere where he didn't, and I asked him a few questions about it. He never really said anything, but today I found out that he works somewhere completely different. And...

My teacher just emailed the whole class saying that she needs drivers for a trip that we're taking next month. She said that everyone had to respond saying if they drove to school or not, and if they do they will need to take students in their car. I have a really small car and am sort of...

When I laugh, I always cry. It's really embarrassing, and I end up trying to contain myself when laughing which makes me look weird. Like today, my mom was calling me on my cell phone but I was in the house, and I stood behind her and waited until she finished leaving me a message on my phone...

Just curious, is anyone married? If so, how the heck did you do it? I mean, the whole living with someone? I don't think I would ever be able to move in with someone that I loved, I would be too nervous that I would mess up. There's soooo many things that could go wrong. I mean how do you get to...

Does anyone ever get really paranoid that they're using words incorrectly or have the wrong meaning? I'm starting to chat a lot online and am constantly looking things up in the dictionary because I'm scared that I might not have the meaning right. And these are words I already know, I just...

Okay well, I made myself an account on this dating site, and of course the only guys who are interested in me are older men. But a few of them are really nice and I've been having really great conversations with them which I think is good 'practice' for me. Well, one of the guys (in his 50's) is...

How do you respond when your family or friends asks why you don't have a social life, never have had a boyfriend/girlfriend, or don't have any friends? My mom has been yelling at me for this ever since I moved back home and I don't know what to say. At first I just sort of laughed it off and...

I was really excited about going to London this summer. I'm pagan and was going to go celebrate the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge, and stay in the London area for about a week in a youth hostel. I thought my parents would be really supportive of me going. I was really proud of myself for being...

I'm not sure if anyone knows the show...but they had an episode on today about psycho killers who are the way they are because of social rejection and don't have any empathy for people. I think about that a lot...sometimes it scares me because I think I might snap one day and go on a killing...

Well, I'm in college now and most of my classes I never talk. But I have one teacher who thinks I'm really smart and is super nice. She calls on me a lot because she wants to know my opinion on things, and is genuiely curious about what I have to say. I talk so much in that class, and feel like...

Well, we were talking about vernacular english and my teacher used the example of how 'we' (the students in my class) speak differently with different people- with our parents, teachers, and friends. Everyone laughed and nodded in agreement. I was just confused because I talk the same with...