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Just about nothing could make me feel at ease. Why is it that I just feel like a stump that people can sit on and have a good conversation with yet I am just rotting inside?? Do people not see my face? Can they not see I am slowing losing hope in life??!I feel as if nothing could be worth trying, no...

Hey man, I've had some similar experiences with my anxiety. I've also picked up some good tricks and crucial's going through all this, time and time again. I realized that hope is a key factor in recovering. Now, the thing is that hope has a funny way of fading and leaving you clueless sometimes. Se...

Hey man, I'm wondering how you've been doing? Anything been happening lately?

Hey bud, I've been through something very similar as well. Depression sort of overcame me a few years ago and I've been dealing with it ever since then. Periodically coming out of it and back into it just as easily. My advice is to learn about what it is that is currently affecting you. Depression a...

Hey guys,
Just wondering, when worse gets to worse what is it that helps to get you through to another day? What do you live for and what is your reason to keep going? I'd love to hear some genuine responses to help me gain a greater understanding of what 'my' reason could be. Please share Thanks!!

Hey thanks for the story. I actually had a similar experience a while ago when I told one of my coworkers that I had anxiety issues. Surprisingly he came back with some very heartfelt statements. It was nice to hear someone encourage me instead of myself. Ever since we have been on better terms. I'm...

Hey no problem, it's great sharing your own experience with others. Truly lifts a weight :) Also when you said "thinking seemed like my only escape" I immediately thought about what someone had told me a couple weeks ago. He explained it something like this: we each have two states of Mind one being...

Hello Kiekegaard, I wouldn't be surprised if many of us do this type of thing but in our own unique way. My experience was a little different typically revolving around a sociological perspective. I would critique people along with myself on a very critical scale of a person's integrity. As you can ...

Thank you so much! It's great knowing others are there to help you through this. Your words are greatly appreciated and I'm feeling much better since the last post :D . I am continuing to keep up those positive thoughts and surprisingly i'm opening up to people. I started to ask my coworkers questio...

Hey, same here! I'm having difficulty starting a conversation and trusting that it will be interesting and I won't loss my concentration on what I am doing. I'm realizing, slowly that when I start a conversation everyone isn't focusing all their attention on me and judging me as a weirdo that I thou...