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    Identity Achievement

    Hi, I haven't been here in a while. Thought I'd share some thoughts. The older I get, the more wisdom I have and the more I realize how much more destructive social anxiety can be compared to what I initially thought when I was in my teens and early 20s. Lately, while trying to find what my own...
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    Do you think it's possible to have SA and be a natural-born leader?

    Lately I've been wondering if I actually have good leadership qualities, which is strange because I have SA, so all my life, whenever I've been in a situation that involved teamwork, I barely talked and let everyone else decide what to do and even though sometimes I didn't agree, I didn't say...
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    The Importance of Feeling Valued.

    Hey everyone, I rarely make threads but I've been thinking about something lately and thought I should share it. I wanna discuss the importance of feeling valued when you're fighting SA. I feel like it's something that I've completely ignored and is the reason why I think I've hit a wall in my...
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    Crashing

    For the past two years, I've been fighting depression, to a point where I sometimes think that I'm finally healed, but then suddenly I crash mentally for no reason and thus my life crashes as well. No matter how hard I try to get back up rapidly, I can't! It seems that the only way to get better...
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    A life dominated by fear has now been swallowed by anger

    I'm 24 years old, I've had SA for half of my life. I used to not know why I had SA, until I started analyzing my dreams. Ever since I was a kid, I've always had these crazy dreams and all those dreams had one thing in common, fear. It made me wonder why I always had nightmares filled with fear...
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    Goodbye Everyone

    I'm gonna leave this Web site. I don't really know what I'm doing here anymore. I think the only thing this site does is bring comfort because you get to see that there are other people like you out there with the same struggles. I don't need that comfort anymore. I just wanna crush this SA once...
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    Did anyone else choose to not date until their SA is completely gone?

    A long time ago I made the decision to not approach any girls until my SA is completely gone. It's sad living this way, but I don't want to take any risks. Loving someone is also being there for that person and I fear that I wouldn't fully be able to support that person as long as I have SA...
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    Post your relaxing videos.

    Often I can't sleep or I have to sleep but feel like I have too much energy. I'm sure there are other people like me. A trick that I found a while ago is to watch relaxing videos on YouTube. I'm often searching for new videos, hidden gems, but I can't find them all by myself, so share your...
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    Feeling pressured by society to drink alcohol.

    I don't drink alcohol. I never did. I just don't see the point. Why drink alcohol when you could just drink juice or milk? That's the way I think. I seem to be the only person in the world who thinks this way. I don't have anything against people who drink alcohol. I just don't want to drink...
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    Finding out your crush has a bf/gf.

    Hey, I'm just writing this to share my pathetic story, which seems to happen every time I have a crush on a girl. I've had a crush on a girl for six weeks. I pretty much thought about her every day. She's so beautiful, she's intelligent and when she's playing with her hair in class beside me...
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    Cell Phone Assumptions

    Today, I've realized that the reason why I don't talk to girls is because of one thing: cell phones. Girls, at least where I live, and the ones that I'm interested in, are always using their cell phone. They never let go of it. When they're not talking, they're texting. Even during class when...
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    Is it okay for a 24-year-old guy to date an 18-year-old girl?

    Okay, I'm asking this purely out of curiosity. I just wanna know what people think about this, hear different opinions. I don't actually plan on acting based on what people say. I turned 24 yesterday and for the past year, I've been back in school. The people there are 18-19 year olds. Life in...
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    Feeling of extreme sadness when I see a beautiful girl.

    Whenever I see a beautiful girl, I don't know why but I get extremely sad, to a point where I get depressed. My skool is filled with beautiful girls, so every day it's the same. I go to skool in a good/neutral mood and I leave depressed and sad. Is anyone else like that? Guys or girls.
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    Hallucination or real?

    From spending some time here, I know that many people here feel like everyone is looking at them. I'm sort of like that too, but less now than before. Sometimes, I get these glimpses of girls looking at me and smiling... For example, yesterday I was at school doing some math homework and there...
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    [Experiment] People sitting beside you in the public bus.

    In my efforts to overcome my social anxiety, I've started doing the opposite of some things that I used to do. One of those things that I used to do is that I used to put my school bag on the seat next to me in order to prevent someone from sitting beside me. Of course, that's not a nice thing...
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    SA and Performance in School

    I've been doing some thinking and I wonder if there's a link between SA and how much school is such a struggle for me. I'm not talking about interacting with others, I'm talking about performing well in tests and being able to handle all the workload. I've noticed that school is so stressful...
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    I'm back!

    Hello everyone, I'm back and I'm on a drug, it's called Charlie Sheen! No, seriously, I'm glad to be back after almost a year, but it seems that most of the people that I used to talk to got banned or left. It's okay, I'll make new friends maybe. I just needed to leave 'cause I wasn't ready for...
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    What's the creepiest thing anyone has ever told you?

    Share your creepy story with us! For me, it was when I was in high skool. My friend was a hardcore nail biter, he even ate the skin around his nails. One day, I was at my locker and he didn't have any nails left to bite so he saw that my nails were bitable and he asked me if he could bite my...
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    Offensive Reputation Messages

    I noticed in my User CP that I've received two offensive reputation messages where people are calling me names, one I can't even write here. In the other one I was called "slimy" because they disagreed with an old message that I wrote. Giving a negative reputation is one thing, but name calling...
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    Achilles and the Tortoise

    Because of SA, I've certainly went through some rough times and hit some walls in my life and because of that, I am now lagging behind people I knew and pretty much everyone my own age. I used to beat myself up over this. I thought that because I hadn't progressed like everyone else, I was a...
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