I went out on Sunday morning for a change as I was going to an event in the city(alone of course!) As I walked around I noticed just how many people were sitting outside drinking at the various coffee houses and speaking with friends and family or just reading the sunday papers. I felt a pang of jealousy. It looked a nice thing to do on a sunny summers morning.I’d like to be able to do that but I know no one in this city and hate going to such places alone as I feel awkward and weird and it usually...

Perhaps my situation isn't so bad that I need to move out immediately, but the home environment seems bad for my mental wellbeing.

Today there wasn't much food in the house, in fact the fridge is empty with just milk so I had Quaker Oats for dinner. Tbh I could have brought more food for today, like I did the last few days; but I decided f*** it, I couldn't be bothered as my mum hardly buys food herself and expects me to be buying food for the house the whole week. My mum is on benefits...

You often get posts on anxiety forums attacking people for being cowards. The idea being that you are simply not doing enough to cure your SA. “What have you done?” they ask as if you must have a list of tasks to complete as if you are unemployed and being questioned by the job centre to justify your benefit payment. Feel your fears and do it anyway etc. of course guilt has been used as a motivational tool and to encourage people for as long as humans have existed. However I think there may...

So about a month ago I closed down my old Facebook account due to the fact that I had lots of Facebook friends but most of them really didn't feel like friends, I wondered if I was just certain peoples friends so they can boast how many Facebook friends they had. Secondly I found Facebook a waste of time, I was just reading and viewing other people's lives while doing nothing in mines.

Now that I rejoined yesterday, I have decided that I am only adding people that have been friends...

I hear the advice often of making sure you don’t come across as too desperate, too eager to other people. Yet of course in the wonderful world of internet advice hypocrisy you also get the advice almost ad infinitum of feel the fear and do it anyway, force yourself to go out to everything, keep trying to talk to people at every chance.(so you appear desperate to people!) It’s hardly surprising it gets confusing then. Of course being too desperate shows that there is something wrong with you...