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I've gotten distracted by life, unfortunately, and these Edmonton meetings have fallen by the wayside. I recently got a request for a meeting, so I thought, you know what, why don't we lay down a fixed time, once a month for an EDMONTON SOCIAL PHOBIA MEETUP Here it is: the third thursday of...

Okay - so, sorry folks, I finally got around to setting the next meeting date (my excuse, well, I guess I'll blame it on exams). Sorry rko - I know I said Thursday, but I realized that I've left it to long and that's not enough notice for everyone to be able to make it. So, here it is: Sunday...

My ex-spouse is threatening me with suicide. I mean - threatening me. He says he's depressed, that I'm his soulmate, and because he doesn't have me he will inevitably kill himself. But...he insists on threatening only me with it. I called his parents, and his friend - he won't talk to them about...

k, I know that lots of people with sa use alcohol to deal with it, but I have the opposite problem. I'm always really nervous when other people are drinking, cause I never go out (not to mention the fact that I'm a total lightweight cause I never drink). So, my question: What do you drink...

Gah. I feel like I'm over-using the web space lately with my own problems...but I'll try to turn this into a general topic. Should we be forcing ourselves through our anxieties? Lets just say, there's something I want to do, but I feel very uncomfortable; I feel anxiety with it. What do we do...

you know, I have noticed that many posts show up here about people just wanting friends, or boyfriends or girlfriends, and although I TOTALLY understand the sentiment...I just wanted to offer a different point of view. my whole life I have always had friends...but usually best friends, or...

I post this crazy poll question to make a point: are other people better than us? or just capable of doing something that we have trouble doing? why do we care what other people think? or do we? for some of us, is it not that we feel inferior, but that we have a physical reaction to be around...

Who out there really believes that their SA will get better? or even go away one day? Can you be "cured"? - or, maybe "healed" would be a better word.

Anyone else out there afraid of working out in public? Since I've discovered that I have an anxiety disorder, I'm able to see how ridiculous it is for me to be afraid to go to the gym, but...today I went to the university with work out clothes, shoes and even extra socks, but I couldn't bring...

you know, I was thinking after I read silverwolf's post on jerks getting girls.... I think complaints about how jerks seem to have what we want come up fairly frequently with people with SA...I mean, I know I've felt that way. How come I can't make friends, when that jacka$$ has all those...

Hey, just out of curiousity... how many of you out there are religious? spiritual? not at all? maybe a bit? also, if you are or aren't, does it have any relation to how you see your SA, or how you deal with your SA?

Anybody think they have any good tips for how to make friends? And, I mean, more than just showing up at events or joining clubs...casual aquaintances I can do, and if I was looking to date I would know what to do....how do you make friends? I feel so lame writing this....

I don't feel like I belong anywhere. .. ever hear of Maslow's hierarchy of needs? (psychology thing) we need to meet (in order) our physical needs, security needs, then belonging needs...and suposedly you can't keep going if you don't meet that level. I keep trying to ignore that and shoot for...

Hey. Any Edmontonians out there looking for someone to chat online? How does that work anyways? Where do people chat? - like, on messenger?

I just got back from my bf's xmas staff party. Not so great for me - lots of people drinking and smiling and asking me why I look bored, when I really just want to get out of there... do you ever just get angry? I mean, not sad, not depressed or down on yourself - but just angry at all the...