Hello everyone!

[EmmaImogen]

Hi everyone! I hope I can make some friends on here or at least talk to people who understand what it's like to have social anxiety disorder. I'm on a gap year at the moment because I don't feel confident enough to go to uni just yet. I was going to use this year to try and improve my anxiety and depression and hopefully being here will help that!

[Focused]

That's a great idea

see you around.

[Z.]

Hi there Emma I had a gap year and just started uni a couple of weeks ago.

What will you be studying?

[EmmaImogen]

Thank you

Originally Posted by Kley

What will you be studying?

English Literature. What do you study?

[thaigreen]

Hey Emma! Welcome! Hope you're okay today?

[Sunshine Recorder]

Aloha, Emma. I hope you find this place useful.

[Z.]

Originally Posted by EmmaImogen

Thank you



English Literature. What do you study?

Ah nice I'm doing Illustration.

[EmmaImogen]

Hey thaigreen and HexagonSun! I'm doing alright today, thanks.

^Oh wow! Illustration is cool.

[Dear turtle]

Welcome! I just joined a few days ago too, everyone is lovely and friendly here. So you'll fit right in

[EmmaImogen]

Originally Posted by Dear turtle

Welcome! I just joined a few days ago too, everyone is lovely and friendly here. So you'll fit right in

Thanks! I'm so glad! I can't stop using exclamation marks because I'm just so excited to be able to be so honest here.

Originally Posted by Badger

Hi EmmaImogen

Hi!

[Z.]

Originally Posted by EmmaImogen

^Oh wow! Illustration is cool.

Yeah, I was crapping myself before I started, because of the fact that I'd be surrounded by human beings but I am enjoying it. I think you'll love it when you start

[EmmaImogen]

Originally Posted by Kley

Yeah, I was crapping myself before I started, because of the fact that I'd be surrounded by human beings but I am enjoying it. I think you'll love it when you start

Good to hear you're enjoying it! I hope I do too. I thought, with my subject, even if it does get tough I can always retreat to my room and read.

[MissyP.]

Welcome to the forum Emma.

[EmmaImogen]

Originally Posted by Floppy

Welcome to the forum Emma.

Thank you!

[EmmaImogen]

^^Thanks guys!

[Z.]

Originally Posted by EmmaImogen

Good to hear you're enjoying it! I hope I do too. I thought, with my subject, even if it does get tough I can always retreat to my room and read.

Yeah the socialising aspect is still a bit difficult, but I don't know what else I expected
It's good to have a back up plan. Reading always seems to help doesn't it I take it you're staying at the place then rather than travelling back and forth everyday?

[umm]

Originally Posted by Kley

Ah nice I'm doing Illustration.

Ah, would that I could! I have recently discovered the golden age illustrators - Kay Nielsen, Arthur Rackham etc.

@ to the op, EmmaImogen, Hi and welcome

[EmmaImogen]

Originally Posted by Kley

I take it you're staying at the place then rather than travelling back and forth everyday?

Yep, I'll probably be staying on campus in a shared flat. At the moment I live in Cambridge and the uni is in London, which I'm actually ok with because my grandparents live there so it's the city I know best after my hometown. Also, it's a small campus uni so it's like a little retreat from the busy city.

Originally Posted by umm

@ to the op, EmmaImogen, Hi and welcome

Hi! Thanks