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Or maybe not specifically friends, but people who know you and you haven't seen in years. I do, it makes me not want to go out whenever I'm in my hometown. I just don't want to them to see that I'm still the quiet one that can't hold a conversation, that I haven't changed at all. I would love it...

My problem is that I can't talk to people. Not because I'm too anxious to say what I want, not because I feel my input isn't important, but because I have nothing to say. Ever. I can't hold a conversation with anyone, not even with things I'm confident about (e.g. what I study at uni) with the...

Does anyone get this? Sometimes when I walk past someone and we exchange eye contact, or someone I know is watching me walk out the room, I become so aware of how I walk. Because I start focusing on how I walk so much, I start wondering all sorts of things: if I walk weird, what my posture is...

Sometimes when I'm lying in bed and can't sleep, I seem to look back at past experiences and feel so embarrased about them (even if I didn't feel embarrased at the time) and think "oh my god, why did I do that?" then bury my head into my pillow. Or if I'm listening to music on my iPod and...

I most certainly do. Despite having that horrible feeling inside me when I have to meet someone new, or the panicky feeling when the inevitable awkward silence comes, or that draining "why bother?" feeling when in a large group of people, I can't stand not being around other people. That's why I...

OK, a little background information: I've had social anxiety throughout my teen years (since 13 I think, I'm 18 now), and during these years I've done anything possible to avoid socialising with others, saying very little in social situations, generally being the outcast etc. Now I've come to...