#socialanxiety

I've been wanting to change myself for a while now, but I don't know how. Honestly, I feel like most people dislike me because I'm weird, awkward and I don't know how to really communicate with people. One time, I was volunteering to get experience for being a lifeguard, and it was 5 minutes befo...

I find myself waiting for these anxiety attacks to come on when I know I shouldn't. I am finding that when I think I have finally gotten a handle of things and am doing well long enough to forget I have been having them, that is when they creep up on me and hit me…

I had a major break down a whole 7 days ago today, this time last Friday I was literally begging and crying for the hospital to admit me to mental health and help me. (its 10:15pm here now). in the end the mental health nurse gave me a valium in an envelope told me I…

Why am I even crying? Don’t say too much. don’t say too much and don’t overshare. why are you being so quiet? say something already! I can’t have it both ways. I have to keep my mouth shut to keep all of the thoughts and words from tumbling out. But I have to say something……

I feel like I should write something on here since I’ve been paying for this site, but it’s honestly very intimidating. I’ve had a botched life that’d be ripe to be judged lol There are all kinds of situations out there though.. Spending over 3 decades living with selective mutism, agoraphobia, s...

I’ve had this my whole life, along with generalized anxiety and generalized social anxiety. Even though I’m a grown-assed adult, I still have symptoms (it’s much better than earlier though) and decided to write about what spending life with it has been like (though anxiety disorders manifest diff...

I used to read this site in 2002/2003ish! I was just a teen back then messing with the internet for the first time. I’m looking for friends in the SF Bay Area. I don’t live there but visit. I’m a shut-in where I live due to my chronic catastrophic anxiety. I am an online sex…

   I can wake up one morning, sit up in bed and think "Okay, it's a new day... Think positive. Be happy." Then all of a sudden I have a flashback of a memory. One memory leads pushes me down a dark painful rabbit hole. And I'm not even out of the bed yet, my…