Stress Center Peer Support

Dear Sandy, Thank you for the kind advice. You are right of course, living in the past does no good. Feeling sorry for ourselves does no good, but we, all who have suffered in these ways, are better and stronger for our efforts to overcome, right?! It helps just to hear from you and others and to kn...

Dear Victoria,

Thank you for your response. I appreciate the advice. Yes, I guess I wasn't shown any assertiveness, I never thought about it like that!

I'm much better at writing than speaking, so I just might write a letter to the paper. Thanks for the suggestion.

Barbara

Well, I don't when it started, but pretty much as far back as I can recall, I've had social anxiety. I was always picked on by other children and I could not understand why they were so mean and cruel. I guess, though today I am more outgoing, that is why I think negatively of people, in general. As...