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Feelings: I want to hide from people. I feel judged. I feel like internally screaming. I want to run away. I want to escape. I don't want to be seen. I don't want to be judged. Hiding is safer. I don't want to interact with people. I feel like I have to wear a mask and I feel drained by concealing myself all day long. I want to quit my job. I feel like people ...

People like to call me agoraphobic because I meticulously choose where I sit and how I stand. If I am not in my own home I like to be prepared to escape if need be or defend myself in the best way possible. I am not scared of death, although I'd like to avoid it as long as possible which is why I try to travel as little as possible and stay fit.

A few ...

I couldn't seem to find a topic about this, so I made my own (maybe someone else is having just as hard a time finding one as me!)
Hello, I'm Jellyfishwishes, no hug. I didn't know I had this phobia until 1. I moved to the southern U.S. where for some inexplicable reason people HAVE to touch or hug you just to say "hello" and 2. after suffering a severe and sudden breakdown at work ...

Hi. I've gone through some massive mental changes caused by personal development these past years, one major one has been to gradually strip myself of what I like to call self esteem dependencies. I guess my goal is to be able to feel good and accepted regardless of any of my abilities which is probably quite a shock for my body as I now see that I have been resting on my abilites my whole ...

I have a rather frustrating speech known as rhotacism which, for me, makes me sound like a 6 year old. This does very little for my self esteem and social skills which wouldn't even have been that bad if my stepdad didn't encourage my stepsiblings to make sure that I was a social outcast at school. I had speech therapy for 9 years and it did nothing. I love talking and stating my opinions about ...

So, I'm in my mid teens.

There are really a lot of girls I like, as stupid as it sounds I've never spoken to them!

Reason 1 - I'm from out of the country.

I live overseas, and the language barrier is a pretty big issue, although most of them can speak English pretty well, at maybe a 2nd grade level.

There's one in particular that I could see myself dating in the future, I've ...

I have an issue during school or any other social gathering where I would walk but I would always have the thought in the back of my head telling me that someone is looking or staring at how I move or walk. I have been told before that I have a slouch whenever I walk around the school and I hunch wherever I go to places and that has made me more self conscious about ...

After months and months of working up the courage to ask a girl out they never say yes, ever. None of them are even remotely interested in me.

I've never been to prom,
I've never been to homecoming,
I've never been to a party.
I don't have many friends.

I'm a virgin at 22 years old....

Like supposedly college and highschool is the time where bots and girls have the easiest time dating... And I ...

Hello guys,

I want to tell you a very interesting story, and I would be more than happy if you could give me a comment about it, because I was searching for an answer for a very long time, but still did not managed to find one

So, I was communicating with one guy a year ago, and what happened is that he did an incredible influence to me. As I was more and more ...

I hold myself back because of this fear and I want to get rid of it. I don't see my psychiatrist for another month, so I'm hoping that someone here can help me out with this.

I'm haunted by memories of times where I was rejected, humiliated and/or disrespected. These memories come up when faced with the prospects of those three things.