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That some male posters here on SPW have been rejected by the opposite sex one too many times for the sake of their own fragile sanity? 8O Nutso...

Have you ever been in one? If so, how was the experience?

I'll be turning 21 this Saturday and I can't say I'm looking forward to it. In light of this, I was wondering how others here celebrate your birthdays? So far it seems that I'll be spending the day alone, scared I might actually have to be around to see 22.

Suffering from severe SA who receive disability benefits because of it? I'm just curious.

I spend so much time alone, and I talk to myself incessantly (although I've always done this quite a bit), but now I barely know how to communicate with my own family. Sometimes I really do think my psyche is becoming warped. I feel stuck. Anyone else wonder sometimes if they might be losing it?

And wonder how on earth you could look the way you do? It's no wonder that I have no confidence and that everywhere I go I feel buried in a layer of pure ugliness.

"Recovery" for people like us? I mean it's not like getting over a drug addiction, and even if it were the threat of relapse would loom over our heads for the rest of our lives. But do people with social anxiety/ phobia really ever recover? Or do they merely find ways to cope and therefore...

Fill in the blank. For me, I knew I was officially a hermit today when I got hungry and decided to have food delivered to my home. But instead of going to the door when the delivery person arrived I had set out money and a note telling the person to leave the food on the porch. Sigh, what am I...

OK, so I just got a phone call about 5 minutes ago from Petsmart asking me to come in for a job interview tomorrow at noon. This surprised me because I had applied online just the day before yesterday. I applied for the position of Pet Care Specialist. The job description says that they: "Work...

Does anyone else feel like their parents/family resents you because of your SA? I feel like I am a constant disappointment to my family.

Do you ever go places and see other people in awkward situations and you get nervous or uncomfortable just watching them? This happened to me the other night. I went out to the store (something I rarely do) and it was nearly midnight which meant the store would soon close. There were only a...

And a girl asked about what kind of jobs would be suitable for someone suffering from Social Anxiety Disorders. I found some of the responses to be rather telling of how some outsider generally perceive social anxiety. One person responded: "I thought s.a.d. was seasonal affective disorder...

And she graduated high school two years behind me. It's times like these that it really hits me just how far I've slipped behind because of my SA. Makes me wonder how I could've gotten to this point. It's pitiful.

Just out of morbid curiosity, does anyone have any idea what the suicide rate for people with severe social anxiety might be?

How many of you feel like your just plain stuck right now? It's like I've become too afraid to live my life and now I'm watching everyone drift past me and go on with theirs. I know I'll have to work really hard to change that somehow. The friends I graduated from high school with are heading...

My Dad keeps pressuring me to call some mental hospital and possibly have myself committed because of my social anxiety. How am I supposed to respond to this? At this point I'm terribly lost. :(

Does anyone else feel like they've gotten to the point of being almost a complete shut-in? I only go outside of the house to go to the mailbox most days. Sometimes it feels like I'm forgetting what it's even like to be truly alive. I don't even feel comfortable walking to the mailbox to be honest.

In your life because of your SA? For me it's attending university. I had had plans to go but I knew I wouldn't be able to handle it. Next thing I know a couple of years fly by and I feel so far behind the few friends I keep in touch with off and on. So what have you guys missed out on because of...

This morning I went to my school campus to speak with an adviser about which classes I should take and although it was a relatively short affair I was still very uncomfortable. I've been hiding myself away from the world quite a bit over the last few months and so it was really pretty depressing...

Of there being a place where severe social phobics/agoraphobics can be sent for 3-6 months or however long to be "rehabilitated"? Personally I don't think the likelihood's very good at all, but my Dad seems to think otherwise. He keeps telling me I need to go get help at one of these mysterious...