Afraid to post

[Quixote]

I'm not really afraid to post here, even though I was slightly nervous the first few times I did on another forum (one not related to mental problems). I have nothing to hide here, I can be myself. At the beginning I also felt compelled to express my opinion in detail on every issue where I might have anything to say/explain, now I just write a couple of lines when I feel like it.
I guess I'm giving less and less valuable contributions to this forum as time passes, but I suppose this is a natural process...

There should be no reason to be afraid to post.

You are hiding behind a computer screen and youre typing on a keyboard.

Well personally I don't feel a lot of protection from that, I would feel "embarassed with myself" if I were to misbehave "under cover". But apart from that, yes you are right, it is less stressful of course.

 

[yankees440]

first post

I am a new member to this website but i do find it quite difficult to post things a lot of times cause of what people might think of what im saying.... Even though i no this message sounds dumb, i realize that this is one of the first steps in a recovering social phobic.. learning to realize that people dont care about wut u do or say as much as u think they do....

 

[boro]

I am also somebody who has to be certain about what they are saying rather than post something on a whim, which is what i would like to be able to do
but i find i need to analyse my posts so many times before i actually hit that submit button. I always think that other posters that have 100s or even 50 posts against thair names are so much less anxious than i am about posting and as a result less anxious about social interaction generally and i feel that i am being silly by fussing over what is after all an anonymous response, but it is comforting to hear that others are like this as well.