Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
19th May 2022, 17:49
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Replies: 34
Views: 3,185
Re: Noisy cars
But presumably you don't drive round the neighbourhood farting through a loud speaker for hours on end.
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Forum: The Lounge
19th May 2022, 17:47
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Replies: 26
Views: 1,251
Do you ever feel intellectually frustrated?
I have been watching some youtube videos recently by a guy called CosmicSkeptic. He's an undergraduate at Oxford, studying philosophy and theology – though he is himself an atheist. Anyway, he...
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Forum: The Lounge
15th May 2022, 17:01
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Replies: 2,031
Views: 244,857
Re: What book(s) are you reading at the moment?
The relationship between science and philosophy is a really interesting one. Philosophy, I guess, is just a quest for understanding. We find ourselves in this bizarre universe, without any map or...
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Forum: The Lounge
14th May 2022, 14:20
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Replies: 2,031
Views: 244,857
Re: What book(s) are you reading at the moment?
Douglas Murray: The War on the West. A bit extreme in places, but interesting. It's essentially a counter-attack against the woke/BLM movement.
A. C. Grayling: The Frontiers of Knowledge. A...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
11th May 2022, 22:41
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Replies: 24
Views: 3,432
Re: Still Living at Home
Pretty similar to me. I’m 45 and still live in the house in which I was born. My dad died when I was 31 and my sister has married and moved out. So now it’s just me and my mother. I always...
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Forum: Other Issues and Conditions
8th May 2022, 21:34
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Replies: 1,760
Views: 256,637
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
4th May 2022, 14:56
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Replies: 40
Views: 2,643
Not being 'normal'/dropping out of society
Most SA sufferers feel a bit disconnected, I guess – like we aren't 'real' people/not living a normal life. But do you think there's an upside? I was talking to someone the other day who said that...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
28th April 2022, 22:51
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Replies: 28
Views: 2,670
Re: Nostalgia for Teenage Years
Some people are definitely not suited to being teenagers. And it isn’t just SA sufferers. Many confident, assertive types also hate being young. I have heard several people say that when they...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
27th April 2022, 22:37
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Replies: 28
Views: 2,670
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
27th April 2022, 22:33
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Replies: 28
Views: 2,670
Re: Nostalgia for Teenage Years
Not for my teenage years, no. There is no golden summer that I long to go back to. I've hated pretty much my entire life from late childhood/early adolescence on.
I was born in 1976, so my teenage...
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Forum: The Lounge
26th April 2022, 20:52
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Replies: 32
Views: 2,413
The end of Britain’s drinking culture
Do you think we are seeing a change in this country’s attitude to drinking? When I was a teenager in the 1990s, people used to drink obscene amounts and pass out in the street - and be proud of it....
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Forum: The Lounge
20th April 2022, 22:26
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Replies: 11
Views: 745
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Forum: The Lounge
13th April 2022, 09:26
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Replies: 8,166
Views: 844,997
Re: TV programs you're watching?
The Witchfinder. It's had terrible reviews, but I quite enjoyed it. I love Tim Key. And I really like Daisy May Cooper. Actually, watching this has reminded me how much I loved This Country. I've...
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Forum: Club 30-81
7th April 2022, 15:44
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Replies: 218
Views: 44,687
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
20th March 2022, 00:13
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Replies: 34
Views: 3,185
Noisy cars
Maybe this should be in the lounge or somewhere, but it does sort of relate to my SA. Frankly, I just need to rant.
So right now all I can hear is teenagers in noisy cars screeching past the end...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
10th March 2022, 18:24
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,453
Re: Hypersensitivity to noise
Ah well, 6:25 and they've started already. All I can hear are little morons in their souped up cars driving round and round the country lanes near me. As I type, even though I've got the windows...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
9th March 2022, 22:16
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,453
Re: Hypersensitivity to noise
I live in the countryside, but as I type this I can hear the little pri*ks driving round and round the fu**ing country lanes near me. WHAT the f**k is wrong with them?:screams:. They start in the...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
9th March 2022, 22:01
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,453
Re: Hypersensitivity to noise
So depressing to read this crafty elf, but it's a perfect description of life in 2022 Britain. Too many people, and all squashed on top of one another. If it wasn't for my family (and my age, and my...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
9th March 2022, 10:09
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,453
Re: Hypersensitivity to noise
I've come to the conclusion that I'm not (thankfully) a natural depressive. It really is noise and stress (or the world 'out there') that makes me miserable. If I lived somewhere cool, spacious and...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
7th March 2022, 19:36
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,453
Hypersensitivity to noise
Would you say you are more sensitive to noise than other people? I often wonder if it's a common trait among people with SA. I am hyper sensitive, to the point where it makes me ill. One of my...
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
23rd February 2022, 15:41
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,604
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Forum: The Social Anxiety Room
7th February 2022, 14:40
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,851
Mourning for the life you never had
Do you ever feel sad when you think what life might have been? My life from 8 or 9 to my late 30s was destroyed by fear and shame. But what would have happened if all that fear and shame had been...
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Forum: The Lounge
6th February 2022, 23:11
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,323
Re: Books You Plan to Read in 2022
:thumbpur: Stephen Fry is actually a very good writer. I mean his prose is first class – better than many high brow novelists. His autobiography, Moab is my Washtub, will be considered a classic 50...
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Forum: The Lounge
28th January 2022, 17:17
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Replies: 2,031
Views: 244,857
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Forum: The Lounge
24th January 2022, 17:55
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,323
Re: Books You Plan to Read in 2022
The problem with reading lists is that I keep adding new books (which I know I'll never read).
Has anyone ever read Stanislaw Lem's Solaris? I heard someone rave about it on a podcast.
I also...
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