What do you do to help yourself deal with social anxiety (excluding meds)? It's difficult for me to deal with this, so any helpful advice will be greatly appreciated.
Maybe I am weird, but, I feel like my anxiety and depression are mine... like I feel safe knowing they are mine. I'm afraid to get better because that will mean I'll have to lose something that's been apart of me for so long. Does that make sense? Any sort of words would be nice, I appreciate it.
Thank you all for responding. It feels great knowing others know where I'm coming from. I have lived with this for a while so I guess this is why I feel like this. I suppose this will just take patience and time for me to accept that it's okay to get better and all... *shrugs*
Debbie- I don't take any meds, no. I'm alone in this, right now, since I have yet to get professional help.
I feel like everyone's stealing from me. My ideas, my music... everything I adore.. I feel it's being taken away from me. People are stealing the things I love. Today, I saw a friend's away message with a lyric of a band I love... I doubt she even listens to them, probably just picked up a line and used it. I don't know, people steal my likes, that's how i feel. That sounds foolish.
I'm afraid to say anything that means something to me, in fear people will take it for their own. I don't think I can trust anybody but my close family. Oy, I don't know what to do anymore, I can't trust anybody else with what I say.. and I'm truely alone in this, I'm within myself.
=/ sorry for the rant.
Hello,
I agree with the rest about the chat room; I think having that would be very comforting and nice. The only issue might be moderators (someone to regulate the chat). I donno tho, I think people on here are rather mature. By that, I think if there was to be a chat... it should only be available to registered users.
I belong to another site, which contains a chat room. The site is mainly focused on teenagers and they're personal problems. I know of a few people there who are dealing with anxieties, but not many. Let me know if you want the site name.
Hello, I am new here. I have not been diagonosed with anything due to the fact that I am afraid of help. I'm 18 years old and have been feeling depressed for more than three years. I feel as though this depression that's been longing onto me is holding me back from opportunities. I can't get any sort of person to find interest me, I'm lost in my thoughts of hopelessness and worthlessness. I know I am depressed, but, I can't get myself to agree fully with myself. I tell myself that I bring on this depression to myself, I am at fault. I don't know what I'm doing to bring it on, but I continue to blame myself for it. I don't know what to do, I'm lost in myself.
Any sort of helpful/nice words would be muchly appreciated.
Thank you...
Thank you guys so much. You have all been of help to me, this site seems very nice and I'm going to continue coming here to get some help and to try and help others.
I thank you personally, Batty1986, because I felt so at ease reading your response. I might take you up on your offer and PM you sometime. We'll see if I can take that move, heh.
It is nice to know others truely have been there and can really understand.
I think a helpful 'tool' for depression is getting one self busy.
- Engaging in social gatherings.
- Going out daily for a walk or anything.
- Try to be more social (ignore the voice in your head and take a step to be social)
I have realized that doing those things help me to forget my mind.
*shrugs* I hope this post made some sense.
I recently watched this one movie, "What the bleep do we know?!" and it put something in percpective... depression and the human mind. I believe my mind's voice makes me depressed. Like, the voice in my head puts me down and I think it leads me to believe I am not worth anything and all that.
In the movie it explained that the thoughts we make in our mind can drive a person mad. This guy in the movie said, "Imagine what our thoughts can do to ourselves..." And this lady in the movie was suffering from anxiety and she began to break the mirror, then she stopped and remembered what the guy said. She stood up straight and began to laugh and then began drawing hearts on herself (loving herself).
Are we in control of our mind or is our mind in control of us??
If I'm in control of my mind, can I put this voice to sleep? I believe it's possible. I believe my mind's voice is programming me to feel depressed.
What do you think?
