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I've been going to a small anxiety group and I've given one of them a lift home a couple of times because I live in the same town. Have somehow exchanged phone numbers just in case of any changes with the group, which is a miracle in itself... we don't chat or anything. Haven't talked enough to...

Hi guys. I've been attending an anxiety group - it lasts six weeks and is with six or so other people. It's mostly just being taught about coping techniques, but I have managed to get myself to speak sometimes when the group is asked things. Next week is the last week and as usual I'm leaving...

Hello everyone. It's been a long time since I posted here, 27 now, nothing much has changed... Basically... I don't don't do anything, outside the house anyway. Don't work any more (desperately need to find the optimism to), don't go out, don't have a single friend. Never really did. Never got...

Hi everyone... The other evening I had to go somewhere in the centre of my very small town, and I came across something I haven't felt for many years, since I don't go out much - groups of people who laugh at you as you go by. You have to walk past or through them, and you know it's probably...

Hi everyone... haven't posted for a long time... I'm seeing a therapist for SA now. I only have three or four weeks left, and I am in desperate need to get out there and meet some new people, otherwise I will have blown my last lifeline. I was going to ask if anyone had any ideas of how to find...

Thought I'd ask, anybody here into it? As much as I love F1, the 24 Hours always dwarfs the race that's on the same weekend :)

Oh well. Nobody to help me with going out so maybe I should try a different way - go out on my own and not even bother to try to ask people what the best places are. No pressure, no going in at the deep end, no "you MUST get drunk, do what we do, stay out for hours and pay for a taxi home." I...

If you want to do something you're scared of and you know will tire you, maybe even going to the shops or something depending on how used to it you are and how bad your SA is, how do you get the energy to go out and actually do it rather than put it off again and again and again? Do any of you...

So I haven't been able to make friends, ever. Not even in playschool. So there's clearly something wrong. Nobody I know will give me any advice and so I think the doctor is the only way. Last time I went to see him I just got told to go on holiday... I can't get across how I feel, and I also...

Is anyone here from the Bournemouth area?

Been spending a while on Facebook looking for anyone from school seven years ago who's still living near me. I remember a few more people who were at least ok. Well there's no point. They've all gone to university and/or moved away. It's really depressing. Seeing some of their photos really hits...

The majority of advice for finding friends (from nothing, as if you've moved to a new city or something) appears to be to get a job, volunteer, join a club, or join a class. Anything else? What if you can't something you're interested in and/or close enough to you...

Oh well. Everyone I knew from work is the, "you're a nice guy as long as you don't actually try to be my friend" type of person. The one person I was still talking to about going out has now become a twunt like all the others, and is telling me, "yes we can go out for a quick drink, sorry for...

If you're in the UK, what non-alcoholic drinks are there if you go out in the evening and everyone is drinking? What doesn't make you look too daft? A glass of some oddly odourless vodka? ::p:

I'm sick of people saying, "You're a nice guy! You're just shy, that's all your problem is! You just need some confidence! Everybody has their problems!" when they all silently mean, "as long as you don't want to do anything with me." Everybody says the same thing. I have nobody left to try...

...like if you had just one or two really good friends who would help you get used to being with people, stuck with you through that and showed you what to do, that things would be so much easier?

I happened to say hi to someone I knew from school over Facebook because I was desperate for someone to talk to. A few days later and they've answered. They were still not a friend but someone nice and the only person from school who I'd want to meet again. What do I do though... I don't want to...

Someone I know said that I should go and see my doctor, and possibly ask to be referred to a counsellor, to see what they might be able to do. She actually told me the truth, that I'm so uncomfortable that I make other people uncomfortable talking to me. So I've got myself booked in to see the...

I'm sitting here on the computer. I got up at 12pm and will go to bed about 2am. This is what I do every day. From work I have lots of people who I can talk to. Except they won't talk back to me. I tried and tried and tried to make friends with them. I have a car sat in the driveway but I never...

If you want to look for a psychiatrist because you've never been able to make friends, have SA, and all the rest, what 'type' should you look for, ie. is it a special field or anything? Do all psychiatrists generally do everything?