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This chapter in my life is coming to an end and its time to start a new one, one where I jump back into life. I have dedicated 3 years of my life to overcome the terrible way I suffered, at my lowest point I could hardly leave the house, not use the phone, couldn't speak to people face to face...

I am not sure how clear the title is. My question is has anyone here been stuck in a rut - fulfilling very little in life, not achieving your dreams and ambitions, but just living life in the comfort zone and sticking with what you have - and then just made big changes like quit a job you have...

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or see you or can hear you when you are centre of attention that they can only think negatives of you? Well, this is so simple and something that I know I have not spent enough time addressing and looking into, but I have for far too many years lived believing the above - that if people see my...

I am hoping for some honest true opinions on this problem I am currently working out. I hope people will understand this problem and not think 'Charlie is shallow or vain', I am not like that whatsoever. Basically I am working on overcoming all my insecurities that I have been so self...

Well that is a shame, but I know how you feel, I too have been thinking maybe soon its time to stop writing and time to start make things happening. All the best for the future I hope all works out great for you!

If tomorrow you were either the butt of someone's joke, or someone said something negative about how you look or about your personality, does it have to hurt? I know from past experience that people saying nasty things about how I look for example absolutely devestated me, I felt like a freak...

I know its not SA related, but hey seriously if you are good at poker you can make so much money from poker online, which is perfect for people with SA. When I was at school, up to the age of 13 I was one of the best chess players in the country for my age, I used to win lots of tournaments and...

Its saturday evening here, and am wishing I was doing something which is loads of fun, but instead am spending it at home alone (as usual), not like I am bored or unhappy, but I wish I could be doing something which made me excited. If I could be doing anything this evening it would be if I...

just are just stumped as to how to go about getting it? I am really taking a good long look at my life and where I am going right now and its hard to know where I am heading, my life doesn't really have any direction, I am simply on pause whilst aiming to overcome my SA. But is it right to put...

I wrote this post yesterday but decided to delete it, but I have decided to post it again as I have more thoughts on it. If you have any thoughts on this I would be really interested in reading your views. Its been a lot of trial and error for me in recent months, thinking I may have found the...

If so why? (that is my shortest post ever).

There is a man who fears walking down a certain street because of someone he is scared of, its a bully who lives on the street - who has attacked him and threatened him in the past a few times. The fear of this bully makes that man scared of going down that street, the thought of going down...

A few weeks ago I saw on the internet a public speaking group, some 50 miles away from where I live. I am glad for it being far away because if things go horribly wrong, at least I will never see people again. I was really motivated to go at first but then my subconscious and negative side took...

Before I start writing this I want to say that I know this is so far from the truth for how some people here suffer because I have read that people suffer very differently than me, but I wonder if some people can relate. I read about fear last night and one thing I read was interesting, that if...

People, situations and tasks that cause us anxiety because we have developed such negative beliefs and fears about the situation, could it be possible to start desensitising these situations by imagining these people, situations or tasks we fear and link happy, pleasant things in amongst these...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUCPVx3hieg This was very interesting, I may well see if I can buy the actual video as I have seen so many amazing reviews and I really can relate to what Charles Linden says about anxiety. I have never believed that my SA is a mental illness which Charles Linden...

Am still on my quest to try and overcome my SA. I feel very happy that I understand my fear of speaking now (which I wrote a post explaining) so have been looking into why certain people trigger my anxiety. Now don't get me wrong here, we all will suffer differently about what sorts of people...

This time I understand my fear of speaking. I have probably said this before or others have but forgot about it as I was working on something else. The fear of speaking is not about a fear of speaking as such, its a fear of speaking when anxious. Speaking is not what I fear or triggers the...

This was something James Morgan wrote about last week, that you should take a positive mindset and have a determination to succeed in what you are faced with and give the anxiety no respect. Do you think this is possible to do? This weekend I have been working at trying to overcome my fears of...