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hey to all. i m new in this forum so i dunno where to post. but i found this place kinda suitable for my problem. here it goes:

i m a 17 year-old, healthy and straight boy. i havent had any psychological problems or sth before (at least bad enough to consult a doctor). anyways i met a girl on the internet in dec 2005. we talked with her so much for one year and ...

Does avoiding a situation make me a coward? I feel as if I am letting my fear run my life. Dictate when and where and how I do something. Its something I use to enjoy doing, but because of this incident, I feel as if I will never be "free" like I once was. But I guess once one has experienced a trauma, things are never quite the same and its the loss of this ...

Hi, I'm new. I don't really know if you are all truly avoidants, but after I've read all the bizzare definitions, I know I am. And I am almost 50. I have never been diagnosed, but I can tell you it gets worse. I had my hair cut tonight. I usually stay away from hair styling places. But I took a chance a couple of months ago, just like I do, every couple of years. ...

Hello,
I recently saw a special on MTV's True Life about Tourette Syndrome. I thought that it was great but I want to know you thoughts

Those of you who have also seen it...what are your thoughts? Do you think that it will break away myths around TS or create more stigma? What did you like most and least?

~Jen

about a year ago i had a bad experiance with injesting cannabis, which made me abit schizo and paranoid. i had to go see my doctor and tell him what had happened, he put me on antipschotic drugs to try and help me, he put me on depixol which was given to me every month by injection. one month when i was due to have an injection my gp was not there, so had to ...

hi, i havn't posted anything on this forum sence i tried to kill myself last year. but it has gotten so bad again, i feel so hopless, and i thought here would be a great place to start.

it'd odd that this is still creeping up on me. the halutionations are even worse then before. less easy to handle. i was doing relitivly fine untill last night. i was having them, but it was under ...

Hi, I've been lurking around here a bit, mainly in the schizoid forum and I've always considered myself to have a lot in common with the schizoid personality disorder. It seems to fit me to a T. So, I recently self-diagnosed myself and I feel pretty confident about that. Here's my characteristics from the DSM-IV

(1) neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a family-
I have no desire for a relationship ...

Just as I hit the forum... this song started playing in iTunes...

Quite a silly video and worth a watch ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byY8lAsPk80

Rather interesting article about Self Esteem: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articl ... 414B7F0000

"Early work showed positive correlations between self-esteem and academic performance, lending credence to this notion. Modern efforts have, however, cast doubt on the idea that higher self-esteem actually induces students to do better."

"They found that self-esteem in 10th grade is only weakly predictive of academic achievement in 12th grade. Academic achievement in 10th grade correlates with self-esteem in 12th ...