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that keeps you from being comfortable with other people? The main thing I feel would take away so much of my SA is if I could figure out how to joke around with people. I've been so frightened of everything and everyone since the day i was born that I never learned how to joke with people...

I've gotten so many great ideas on this site and should feel good, but I seem to be stuck. I wondered if people have any thots about the thing that keeps me from getting better. I've had social phobia since I was born. I was angry and afraid all the time and never interacted with anyone. I...

I seem to be more depressed than ever right now because I just can't see any possibility for change. I'm so screwed up and have thot over the years, oh surely by 25 yrs old I'll be better...oh surely by 35 yrs old I'll be better...now I'm 42 and just can't seem to make any progress. When I go...

Haven't been here in a while, but am depressed again. It seems that every social encounter I have I say stupid things or just look away or down so that noone wants to talk to me. Everyone scares me and when I do attempt to talk, I feel like everything I say is wrong or stupid. I keep...

I so often feel like I'm from mars...since i've been sad and unable to communicate since I was little, i almost never have any encounters with people where i feel like I was normal or successful. my mind broods it seems constantly about how worthless I am and how I don't have anything funny or...

I am so glad to have found this site. I have suffered from social anxiety and shyness since the day i can remember anything. I must have been born with some type of depressive problem because I cried every day when i was little and was afraid of everyone but my family. I talked to almost no...