Get the Support You Need

Learn from thousands of users who have made their way through our courses. Need help getting started? Watch this short video.

today's top discussions:

logo

Social anxiety disorder

Ashley -> Health Educator

2024-05-29 1:50 PM

Anxiety Community

logo

Addiction

Ashley -> Health Educator

2024-05-20 2:48 PM

Managing Drinking Community

logo

Challenging Worry - Worry Time

Ashley -> Health Educator

2024-05-14 3:33 PM

Depression Community

This Month’s Leaders:

Most Supportive

Browse through 411.756 posts in 47.057 threads.

160,719 Members

Please welcome our newest members: Ktktindy1, Julesy, grames, rainyjade, AJ8142

Understanding Social Anxiety - Part II


10 years ago 0 1022 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
I don't give people the chance to reject me.  When feeling anxious and depressed, I go into agoraphobe mode... withdraw from everyone and every place...don't answer the phone or door or email... don't even go out to check the snail mail.  It's a struggle to get to therapy and hard to come back here even though I know both places to be very accepting of me.  
10 years ago 0 223 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hit the nail on the head here, Ashley. That's precisely how I feel.
10 years ago 0 11219 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
As we’ve seen before, depression and anxiety can result in many other issues.  People with depression or anxiety often feel that they’re different from others and/or that people somehow can tell that they’re “different” or “not right”.  As a result people with anxiety or depression are often on the lookout for evidence that others are rejecting them.

Have any members here felt this way?

Reading this thread: