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I don't think I am more than anyone else, but maybe I am. Sometimes I get carried away and tell people stuff I shouldn't, and I think it's related to SA. Having gossip--having "insider information"--means, well, that you're an insider, inside the circle, part of the group. Not alone. It's like...

I basically fired my therapist the week before last. I said I was never coming back. I said after 11 years, she hadn't fixed me, so what was the point. I did, even in the midst of my hysteria, acknowledge that she couldn't fix me. That she couldn't help me if I wouldn't help myself. But still...

Another thread got me thinking...when did it start? Was I born this way? My earliest memory of being SA is actually pre-school (~5 yrs old). It's pretty vague though. I also remember years later reading a letter from my pre-school teacher that my Mom had saved that expressed concern about my...

So...I have cats. My family had cats when I was a kid, and I've pretty much had at least one my entire life. Right now I have more than one. There's this huge prejudice against women with cats--at least in the USA, the whole "crazy cat lady" stereotype. I hate it. I don't have 30 cats and my...

Has anyone suffering from SA or AvPD ever really escaped from it? Been "cured"? Last week I was at pretty much my lowest point ever in terms of feeling hopeless about ever having a future that didn't involve sitting home alone until I die of old age. I, of course, had a sobfest in the shrink's...

Anyone else feel like they've become too good at doing things alone? I go to the movies a lot, out to eat, parks, museums, even vacation--alone. I've become good at (resigned?) to doing things alone instead of challenging myself to ask people to do stuff with me. It's too scary. I remember...