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Hello :) I need friends. My so called 'friends' cannot be bothered to contact me, and my family are lazy about keeping in touch. I'm feeling lonely and could really use a good friend - someone feeling like me. I feel I am a nice person, but because I have anxiety issues don't cope so well when...

Hello, I have been a member of this forum for a long time now, and I need some advice. I am suffering from pretty serious depression and social anxiety. I have been doing a voluntary job as computer tutor every Friday afternoon for about 8 weeks or so. I found the woman in the reception to be...

Hi. I have this weird eye contact problem and wondered if anyone can relate... I can't seem to see both eyes at the same time!! I look into one eye and can see the other eye in my peripheral vision but not very clearly at all and it really bothers and stresses me out! When I look at a face I...

Hi, I was wondering how many of you are employed and in work, and how many of you cannot work due to your social phobia/anxiety etc. I currently do not work because of depression, anxiety and social phobia. I really want and need a job but am finding it tremendously difficult to move forward...

Hi and thanks for taking the time to take a look at my post. :) I have been having a severe problems with eye contact now for about 20 years or so, there's much more to it than just shyness and avoidance although this does play a small part... My problem has gradually gotten worse over the...

Hi. I have this BIG problem with eye contact. It's not just looking people in the eye that's the problem, it's knowing how and where my eyes are looking. For instance, when I try and look someone in the eye the eye contact seems to distort and I just can't take both eyes in at once despite...

hi everybody. I was wondering how many of you are on disability benefits and unable to work because of your SA/SP and mental health issues surrounding this. Thanks very much for all of your input! Regards Richard

Hi. I have this chronic eye movement problem that I've had for a long time now, and I don't know how it came about lets just say it did - an intrusive thought I guess!! Basically, I am conscious of virtually all movements my eyes make and this had made it difficult to process what I am looking...

Hi folks. does anyone else find that they can sometimes get really angry when they feel that people are staring at them? This afternoon, I went to a cafe with my folks and noticed this youngish girl staring at me from a distance. I found it a bit intimidating and very annoying as she wouldn't...

hi. i have a huge, huge dilemma on my hands. the government has stopped my Income and Support Allowance, and now I have nothing coming in. I have appealed against this decision as I am simply way too unwell to work full-time. It is amazing (and incredibly unfair) that my benefit has been stopped...

Hi. My name's Richard and I am from Lincolnshire, UK. ;) I have social phobia, anxiety and depression and am currently on medication and receiving psychiatric treatment as an outpatient. I am unemployed and desperately hoping to find employment soon due to massive financial pressures. My health...

Money problems are forcing me back to work but I am far from well enough to return to work! Help!!! I have only been off work for 2 weeks with bad depression, social phobia etc and am in a really bad place emotionally speaking and have been considering ending it all. nobody really seems to...

hello. this is quite a difficult thing for me to talk about but I desperately needed to get it out in the open, and also to see if anyone has an identical problem and what their coping strategies might be. You see, I have this eye contact problem that is totally taking over my life and probably...

I really want to change and become a relatively carefree, confident and better off person but this has always eluded me and I know it always will - nobody can tell me different. I don't want people to have an opinion of me as I am sure it is bound to be a negative one, because my face is so...

Any one from the Lincolnshire area that would be interested in communicating and making friends? I have depression, SA and a stress related disorder and could really use some new friends who will not judge and can understand what this awful thing is like to live with. hoping i hear from somebody...

Hi there. I was wondering if anybody has experienced the same (or similar) situation to me. Basically, I suffer for a whole host of things including depression, social anxiety / phobia and stress - lovely I know!!! I've now had this for about the last 20 years or so to varying degrees and have...

My workplace is becoming hell for me, as I strongly feel that hardly anybody likes me there, and also my illness with depression and social phobia is making my life unbearable, and not worth living. I feel really uncomfortable with a number of people in the office, and can sense that they sense...

Hello there. Was wondering if anybody living near or in Lincolnshire would like to befriend me, and pehaps consider meeting up socially. I am not looking for a girlfriend / boyfriend, just a good friend (male or female) who understands what it is like living with depression, anxiety and social...

Hello. Someone at my workplace seem to make little or no effort to speak to me, but will freely speak to three of my other colleagues. I find this upsetting because I have tried hard to win this person over, but I don't think that's ever likely now. Do you think that ignoring or failing to...

At work I feel that there are several members of staff that dislike me, and are ignorant towards me considering that I suffer from social phobia, anxiety and depression!! I have noticed that they seem to go out of their way to talk to other members of staff, but treat me (in my opinion) like a...