Do you ever feel like you're trapped inside yourself??

yeah, I feel like that sometimes

Yes. Sadly I feel like that alot of the time. :🙁: It's rather depressing.

Sometimes I feel like I'm trapped on Earth. I just get so tired of this whole planet sometimes.

I know there's no were else to go but still. Earth just feels like a prison sometimes.

I'm exactly the same since I was about 16 maybe? I come across as really shy, a bit awkward quite and introverted, I'm not too bad with people I know (well most of the time) like my family but when I'm meeting new people or in a room full of people something comes over me that I can't control, it completely silences me, takes away my voice and leaves my mind blank.

Inside though I am loud, fun and outgoing, I haven't experienced the real me since I was 14, I'm now 23

yeah i feel like this exactly. i just crave to have an instant connection with someone someday so it wont be awkward n they can see me for who i am but mostly people dont like me and have misunderstood me and i am up for having a good time and want to have a laugh and have conversations and have a social life but i feel i cant just let go and be myself which is so frustrating and its not just socially i think i wont get anywhere in terms of a career because i cant be myself and cant say what i want to say

i once got my ear stuck in the gas pump

I pretty much feel this way every day. I'm actually quite pathetic.

Yes! I've become so insecure about what others think of me that I've almost forgotten who I really am.

yeah. except when i was little and had no self consciousness, i didn't have this feeling. the closest i ever got to it when i was little was my first experience with realizing i existed (when i looked in a mirror, haha) and i felt very strange and...it's difficult to describe. but that's not what i experience now. now it's more of a stoppedness, like my flow of self is stifled and can't be re-started.