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Hey all, how's life. I've been feeling something lately and I can't find people that relate, they seem afraid of my neurotic-ism. Anyways, I have agoraphobia/generalized anxiety disorder. I can't leave the house lately to see friends unless they are in my direct vicinity (small ish town, 10...

I just started working again,and after one day I realize it's going to be the same experience as my last job, except this job is even more social and entails a lot more close observation and pressure. Normally I need like 2 days to unwind after a really social, long day. I feel myself with an...

Question: Why does the word panicking have a K in it only when there is an ING? Better question: Can somebody PLEASE give me some words of comfort. I'm kind of freaking out. I have this date with a person I met online in a day or two. We've been talking for awhile, a few months. The reason I'm...

Just wondering, those of you who have boyfriends or girlfriends or have even had dates who you confided in, how do people treat you around your agorophobia or depression? Also wondering if anybody has had any bad experiences, I mean I'd like to not have a bias here :) The whole stigma that I...

Im meetin up with acquaintances i really even barely knew from highschool tonight, and seeing as its been 3 or so years, I know theyll ask " What have you been doing?". This question scares me, ive basically been isolating myself and going through a try again - drop out again cycle of highschool...

probably been done before!! (insert prissy-girl hair flip here) Anybody try quitting any technology that serves as artificial socialization?? (Not including cell phones because they connect you to real people to make plans with real people). Starting to wonder if the main enabler for...

I spent 2 hours running from mirror to mirror, trying to make myself look okay so I could go to the group SA meetup I signed up for today. 2 Hours staring in the mirror, flipping little hairs this way or that, only to retreat to my dark room, feeling lonely because I missed my bus, and I was...

How To Be Alone - YouTube heartwarming and cute (and with the most awesome shoes)

Anybody who has ever even just been on one date, or approached somebody they thought was cute, or had a relationship long or short term, pr even just met up once with a person from an online dating site, would you share the story of your experience? A lot of the time, I don't see myself as...

I know there are tons of threads out there like this, Who the heck cares, they are so outdated. If you live in Vancouver, Bc, CANADA, Earth, Universe, Galaxy, Then how about we all meet up? Even if it's just 2 or 3 people, from what I've learned the last 2-3 years of being on here, all ya'll...

at first it felt extremely beneficial to revisit the past, I had been in denial about the loss of my friends, community, and family from a move from the US to Canada when I was 13 up until 3 years ago, so when I began to dig up the past, it seemed extremely beneficial. I was sorting out...

Something specific, not just "to not be anxious" or "to not have anxiety" or even "to have friends". Some specific moment in your life that you can imagine ( for instance, "be in a crowd of people and being able to express myself clearly, or crack a joke in front of a group" vs. "be not...

When I laugh "at" people is when I feel the deepest sense of love for them. When I see others being vulnerable or being embarrassed is when I feel the most connected to them, I laugh out of pure joy. I realized this when I laughed at my friend when he stuttered. (Hi friend!) And couldn't find...

After surfing all the fun, connected and happy looking pictures on facebook of old friends and being quite bewildered (I don't understand how they do it!)..., I wonder, would you still be depressed if you got along well with others, had that feeling of belonging in other people's presence, had...

What's something that you did well today? It can be towards any part of your life, social, academic, health, personal, mental, spiritual... Today I was waiting at the tennis courts for a friend and I saw a guy carrying coolers toward the baseball courts, on his phone talking about how he has...

I'm too lazy to write my own write up but has anybody tried or experimented with "radical honesty" (I finally found a term for this yay) "Radical Honesty is a technique and self-improvement program developed by Dr. Brad Blanton.[1] The program asserts that lying is the primary source of modern...

I'm sorry if this is offensive to anybody. Please I need somebody's help/advice. My mother is very depressed and has a lot of issues from the past. So every day when I start a conversation with her, about something like how the day is, 2 hours later we're in a heated conversation about an...

what is an effective way to deal with the highly negative self talk that follow after an embarrassing moment?

I posted this on the wanting thread but I wanted to make it it's own thread becuase I'm really interested to hear everybody's answers. Say you're not motivated to change. You're in a rut, and no matter how much you try and pump yourself up about the changes you have to make, you always end up...

i'm sure if you clicked this you probably want to talk about what you're living for. Please feel free! But I also wanted to share this, It's a site that asks very core, important questions and then puts them together into an empowering personal mission statement, to clarify what you are living...