Tag Archives: Social Anxiety

Doing What I Don’t Want Is Good For Me

Lately I feel as though I am doing so much that I don’t want to do. But ultimately I know that this is good for me. I came across an interesting article that describes much of what I feel about this; Kayla at OCD Lives Here describes it as going against your instincts, where it [...]

‘I wish the ground would open up and swallow me’ – I want to disappear

Sometimes when I am around others I just want to disappear. This is a terrible feeling, it’s almost like I start to feel trapped and all my mind can focus on is getting out. I don’t want to focus on conversation: I can’t make conversation. I just think about how stupid I am and how [...]

Obsessive Thinking

Recently I have been plagued by all sorts of obsessive thoughts, thinking out absurd consequences of every kind of scenario. I’m not sure, but it seems as though this kind of thinking and pessimism goes hand in hand with the social anxiety that I experience. The main themes of my thoughts recently relate to a [...]

It’s hard to be who you want to be as an individual…

As a follow up to my post on ‘learn who you are as an individual’ I wanted to write about how difficult this can actually be. You might already have the time and freedom to do what you want and learn how you want to be, but there are many obstacles that might get in [...]

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