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isolation
Anxiety Support / by SLJ
Last post
 March 2nd, 2015
...See more Hey everyone, My life is pretty good, I do a lot of things that I enjoy doing and I'm generally pretty happy, but I do have social anxiety. I don't have any friends and I don't know any people that I trust enough to befriend. When I go outside or I go to the store or whatever it makes me feel really paranoid when theres a lot of people around me. I'm afraid to run into people I know or to interact with anyone. It makes me feel awkward and I just want to go back home as quickly as I can. I can feel it getting worse because I'm now wondering how I'm ever going to have a social life.  I don't ever really miss having friends but it freaks me out that I don't have them, because no one is really there for me and that makes me feel a little scared and lonely sometimes. I guess I'm really isolated and I don't know how to deal with it or if I should break through and how
on top of the world, and Falling back down
Depression Support / by SLJ
Last post
 February 21st, 2015
...See more hey everyone, I'm just wondering how any of you cope with feeling really good, and then all of a sudden feeling really sad. It's getting so hard for me to deal with. It's just so exhausting to me. Because I know I can feel good, and my life has just become this battle to get to that really short period of feeling good.   
How do I stop thinking about him?
Relationship Stress / by SLJ
Last post
 February 13th, 2015
...See more about three or four months ago I met a guy I really connected with instantly and we went on a few dates together. he lives in the same town as me but he travels a lot for his job,   and everytime he would leave after we hung out he would tell me: I'm going to be here still for a few days but after that I'm gone for a couple of weeks. I never asked him for anything so I don't know why he kept stressing on that. He had never given me his phone number but we just communicated through facebook, I didn't ask for his number because I thought he would give it to me eventually.  The last time we hung out, he spent the night at my house and the next morning I asked him: The reason you're here, is that because of me or because you just like having someone?  he started laughing a little bit and then he said: Both kind of, but also just to get to know you. and then I told him: we'll the reason you're here to me, Is because of you, because I usually kick most people out, after... pretty soon after that he left, and I kind of assumed that is was over, which really hurt but I expected that to happen, I could tell from his behaviour that he wasn't taking it that seriously, and at the time I didn't want to either, but I liked him to much to not let him get to me. I just needed to know how he felt about me because I knew that I would have to wait for him a lot since he's always traveling. and I wanted to know if he was worth waiting for. After a week he contacted me again and asked me to have drinks. this really confused me because I was convinced that he didn't like me that much, so I ignored him. I couldn't get him off my mind so some days later I told him yes, that I would like to have drinks with him soon. He never responded,  I have dated someone else after him, but that's over now and I just can't stop thinking about him,  I don't really want to ask him about it, because if he really cared I would probably still be talking to him, but I keep hoping I run into him somewhere. I don't want to waste my thoughts on someone that doesn't care about me, especially someone who I only went out with a few times, but the thoughts keep coming.  
Thanx!
Journals & Diaries / by SLJ
Last post
 February 14th, 2015
...See more I am seriously so thankful and happy to have found this website,  I didn't even know something like this existed. I only found out a few days ago when I typed into google: I need help. I was feeling very low and I've been in therapy twice which didn't really help, but somehow this does help cause I'm feeling so much better already. I'm not sure who to thank, so thanx to everybody who reads this I guess:)  
Feeling stuck
Depression Support / by SLJ
Last post
 February 15th, 2015
...See more Hi everyone, I'm a 24 year old girl that currently studies at an art school. I don't enjoy it anymore and I haven't for a long time. I feel very stuck in where I am right now because i really want to leave the town I live in and start out somewhere else, or travel or something, but in order to do that I'll have to get a job and save money. The thing is I wake up every day feeling stressed out and unhappy and i spend my time trying to look for answers by reading a lot of things online about depression and low self-esteem, feeling stuck and anxiety but non of it seems to really help and I'm at a point now where I'm too exhausted to try out something new. I've been in therapy and it didn't help me. I've tried exercising which does make me feel a little better but it still comes down to the same thing, and it's that i just want to leave. I don't know if I'm trying to run away from something.  What makes everything harder is seeing so many people who I either go to school with or know from somewhere else, being really successful in what they're doing, and seeing them grow. It makes me very angry at myself that I can't be that way. I feel like a lost child almost. I also keep everyone at a distance because I know that I don't have a lot of positivity to bring to their lives right now.
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