Social Anxiety Disorder Support Group

I'm Lloyd, I've been on the site a while, just come across this group, social anxiety was one of the 1st problems i encountered when i began my teens. Over the past 3 years it came and went, so much i left school about 5 months back, i tried to go back once or twice, it was that intense the anger and frustration atartted to boil over, i lost concentration, the anxiety took over, turned me into a wreck. That's me in a nutshell at the moment, I'm a wreck, Can be a right bastard if you catch me on a bad day, I'm sound enough though in general .

Hey Lloyd, are you trying therapy? it really can help. anger's not fun and it's counterproductive, too. take all things one day at a time. Get as much support as you can and give it, too. You'd be surprised how many people are going through some kind of crap. The more ties you make, the stronger you'll feel. Be well!

I tried pherapy a number of times. Hypnotherapy, councelling, psychopherapy, for me they were all temporary fixes, nothing lasted though. I'm not good in pherapy, the only person who sees my true emotion is myself, I was brought up in a male dominated house, we never show emotion, was just how i grew up. I seperate situations from emotion if you can see what im saying, never easy to break me down, so pherapy although let me talk about my issues i could never form the emotional ties to them, but here i feel people understand it's easy to talk to people, form bonds etc. "The more ties you make, the stronger you'll feel." I might steal that line, its a useful one .

Lloyd

I always find with therapy that you get back as much as you put in. When I first went to therapy, for years and years, it was a crap shoot. I didn't know what I was looking for and didn't know how to find it so I found therapists who couldn't lead me anywhere. But, then, over the years, I got more hungry and more 'lucid' and somehow I started chucking all the bullshit I was using as cover and just going for the 'meat'. What I found was that I was plowing through therapists all of a sudden...none of them could keep up w/my hunger for understanding myself and getting on with my life. Then seemingly out of the blue I met the therapist I've referred to now for 4 or 5 years. He's a gem...a real find. He keeps pace w/me because he knows I'm in there to work.

I don't do meds. I exercise and eat pretty healthy and use therapy and now I've worked on building community, too. I think all these things have given me [the illusion of?] a strong foundation so that I can start exploring LIFE more fully!

I'm still groping in the dark but I think I'm believing all the b.s. I just put down. LOL

Thats exactly where i was 5 months back, built up my diet over a months my exercise was top draw, i was in the gym 4 days a week, and working there on weekends. Then it all sort of fell apart, ill get back there in time though, just difficult to know where to start at the moment.

Lloyd

When I fall of the wagon, lol, I just start slow and work toward a general direction (good health)...building healthy habits takes time.