Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
19th March 2011, 01:29
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,778
Re: Feeling like an alien sometimes
Yes that's me! lol
I definitely do feel different to others and on top of that my sense of self just isn't stable - I can go from feeling worthless - often when I'm out in public
to superior -...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
19th March 2011, 01:04
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,543
Re: Self harm?
Both times I've given blood they've given me orange squash and biscuits and I've felt cheated - it should be a cup of tea and biscuits - that's the tradition!
I thought perhaps you needed to look...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
19th March 2011, 00:09
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,543
Re: Self harm?
When I feel down I sometimes go to bed without brushing my teeth and washing my face - that feels like a form of self-neglect to get back at myself. Not in the same league as things like cutting...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
18th March 2011, 23:41
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,151
Re: Consolation prize
We can learn up to a point in my opinion. I'm 45 and I still haven't mastered how to not lose my rag when stress builds up too much so I'd say it varies greatly from person to person. To compare a...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
18th March 2011, 23:14
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,151
Re: Consolation prize
He's got Asperger's Syndrome though - that's what we do!
The world would be a lot better without all the vagueness and ambiguity in my opinion - people might know what they were doing then.
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
18th March 2011, 22:14
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Replies: 25
Views: 2,219
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
18th March 2011, 22:05
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,058
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
18th March 2011, 19:15
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Replies: 20
Views: 3,151
Re: Consolation prize
I think it happens in many relationships that one partner is keener than the other. It depends what you are getting out of the relationship. I think you have to be honest with yourself and assess...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
18th March 2011, 18:58
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,058
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
18th March 2011, 12:09
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,058
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
18th March 2011, 02:59
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Replies: 30
Views: 4,058
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
5th March 2011, 15:36
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,003
Re: Aspergers?
I'd say the latter - they help the person with AS cope with how they are treated by an unaccepting society.
It doesn't work for some and they kill themselves.
I think a combination of avoidance...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
5th March 2011, 15:03
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,003
Re: Aspergers?
Lol Yes that's what we all were before the diagnosis was created in the 1980s
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
5th March 2011, 13:02
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,003
Re: Aspergers?
I don't think there's much advantage to being diagnosed with Asperger's as an adult except that it gives you a greater degree of self-understanding. By adulthood most people with AS will have...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
4th March 2011, 14:31
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Replies: 16
Views: 21,545
Re: Coming off Propranolol - Advice needed
I wasn't on for that long - probably several months. I can't remember the exact dose - just a standard one, not high.
The tablets seemed to prevent outward signs of anxiety and this seemed to...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
4th March 2011, 11:40
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Replies: 16
Views: 21,545
Re: Coming off Propranolol - Advice needed
I've taken Propranolol in the past and I just stopped taking them - I didn't taper the dose or anything.
I would follow your Doctor's advice though to be on the safe side.
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
4th March 2011, 01:57
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,224
Re: Can anyone relate?
It might be because you see keeping to the daily walking routine as a kind of protection against 'bad' things happening so that having broken the routine you expected something bad to happen. Then...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
4th March 2011, 00:31
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,955
Re: Emotional Detachment
Music has often helped me to feel things emotionally.
It can often be when I see the music in a film or video - the combination of sound and visuals
Elgar's Cello Concerto has helped me to deal...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
3rd March 2011, 23:54
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,080
Re: Can't even relate to fictional characters
I agree. It reminds me of the lyrics to the Lamb song 'Bonfire'
Have you ever wondered why those days exist
When life just seems to be a conspiracy against you?
I don't know where the answers...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
3rd March 2011, 18:10
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,080
Re: Can't even relate to fictional characters
I can relate to feeling that I'm not the 'target audience' for something. Today's culture feels as if it doesn't apply to me - partly because it seems predominantly youth orientated and partly...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
2nd March 2011, 12:16
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,115
Re: I can't get past it
The peple who taunted you at school are probably still shallow idiots so that won't have changed but not everyone is like them - I think that's the point people are trying to make.
I think people...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
1st March 2011, 22:30
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,080
Re: Can't even relate to fictional characters
I don't think you always need to relate to a fictional character to find them interesting. Take Alex in 'A Clockwork Orange' - I'd say he is an entertaining character but I wouldn't say I really...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
1st March 2011, 17:28
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Replies: 28
Views: 2,431
Re: Being ignored...
That's exactly the right thing to do on a forum - keep posting regardless of whether you get a direct response.
As for people who just blank you if you are speaking to them I can't abide that type...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
1st March 2011, 17:22
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,144
Re: feelings for your therapist?
I don't think you are abnormal - you're just more sensitive and more of a deep thinker than the average person in my opinion. In order to be like the average person you would need to stop thinking...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
1st March 2011, 17:19
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,144
Re: feelings for your therapist?
Therapists advise on how best to respond to problems in my experience.
I've seen a number of therapists, not just one. Advice is useful but you don't always have to take it - you evaluate it to see...
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