Recent content by emmasma

Is anyone else anxious about being intimate with long time partners? I used to be OK with him, but now I can not bring myself to come on to him, and I avoid situations where we may be able to. I panic If I am still awake when he gets home at night and pretend to sleep. I am not able to talk to...

I have been much more comfortable with myself the last seven years or so since I left my home town and quit tagging behind all my old partying friends. My panik attacks have all but subsided and I do not feel like I will die in my sleep of a heart attack each night. I just do not do the social...

Does anyone else have trouble accepting compliments? If someone gives me a compliment I just do not know how to react right. It is really awkward for me and sometimes even the other person when I come off all wierd. The other day at work a daughter of one of the patients kept telling me how...

I am a former lurker/ occasional poster here but I have been busy with life for the last few years and have not been around. I have been thinking that m y SP no longer affects me but my oldest is in kindergarten now and I am still terrified by random interacting. Now I have to stand with her at...

OK so this doesn't have much to do with my as accept that The last year has helped me a lot, because I have real problems now that make it seem less important, its like I have something to take my mind off it. Anyway I kind of just want to vent cuz I can't tell anyone and it's eating me up. A...

I live in the country and have a somewhat alternative lifestyle. I'm very environmentally concerned, I recycle, compost, and grow some of my own food. I buy my things used when I can find them. I strive for a "off the grid type lifestyle, I think that the modern American lifestyle (I live in the...

OK, so maybe messy isn't the word, I'm a complete slob. I didn't grow up in an extremely clean environment, but this is worse. I have read that its a symptom of depression to not take care of things and stuff. It's like there is so much other crap clogging up my head that I don't have the...

This is my first post. I'm 27 and I'v had sa for as long as I can remember. I read about social anxiety a few years ago online, and since then I've been able to put a label on what I feel, but I've never had any sort of counseling and I certainly can't afford it now. Anyway it's been affecting...