Stress Center Peer Support

One more hint that may help you. I envy people that have self-confidence, but now in admiration not resentment(finally!). I watch them operate in groups of strangers, and then in a bus or elevator, imitate their style of conversation with strangers. If the result is a cold stare (northeast US mostly...

Hey Mike, Ninja-Frodo (great nom de plume!) Two reasons to want to talk to people, 1) The bad one, to lose myself in someone else's life so I won't get into the ill-logic spiral of self deprecation and feeling wounded in life. 2) The good reason: There are some really interesting people out there, a...

Yes, I am a man but feel like a boy among men, defer to stranger's topics in conversation, and lack the sports gene. These macho guys instantly sense that I'm not one of them. Don't get me wrong, I'm married, two grown daughters. Am a professor, and love talking about history, math, politics, the un...