Hello new members of phobics awareness (amina, doreyfanger, Who am I_21, Tazzy10, Gladerunner, fallninnocence, and wizbit7),
I just wanted to say "hello" and "welcome!"I hope to get to know you all.
Colourgirl
hi just arrived wanted to know if anyones had or is having citaloprom and what they think to it
I am taking it. Celexa is another name for it. It gives me a headache, and I am going to ask the Dr. to put me on something else if possible. I have had thoughts of harming myself recently, so I believe this drug is making me think crazy thoughts. Private message me if you like.
Hi, everyone. My name is Alice.
I've always been the shy and quiet type. I didn't know I had social anxiety until after I graduated from high school. Until after I began working, and realized I couldn't function properly in society. I've not been diagnosed, mostly because I didn't even know what social anxiety was until I got fed up with myself and looked it up online.
Now, three failed attempts to start/ continue college, a few horrible experiences with employment and volunteering, and two financial attempts to stay on Sertraline later, here I am. An agoraphobic.
I am afraid. Of fear. I am afraid that I may go on living this way, relying on others to support me until I can function normally. At this moment, I just need someone who understands. Someone who can help me get through the days.
I look forward to getting better, with small steps, of course.
And it all starts with a positive mentality. It's really hard most days, I know. But there are hobbies that can help. Meditation and jogging help me, as does stand-up comedy
So feel free to contact me. I'm on Yahoo! Messenger...
Hello AliceInChains!
Welcome to Phobics Awareness, and you are in the right place with others who suffer from the same. I, too, live in Washington State!
I am a recovering agoraphobic, and I can tell you on the other end, it does get better, not as quickly as we would like, of course, but it does get better. For myself, I found that once I put into practise better coping techniques, and conserved my energy for things that mattered to me, I found that I had more energy to go out and interact socially. I wouldn't consider your attempts as failed, I would call them practise runs.
Your sentence about being afraid, and being stuck really resonated with me, because it's how I felt when I was in the worst of it. And yet, here I am on the other side. It's amazing how these things have such a grip on our lives, and then one day, you realize that they have slowly melted away w/o you knowing as you progress. With your tenacity, I see this for you as well.
I look forward to seeing your posts, and welcome again!
Be gentle with yourself and take care!
Colourgirl
Hello all you new peeps out there!
Welcome to phobics awareness! I try to make it my goal to respond to as many posts as possible, but given my time constraints, I wanted to give a warm welcome to all you newbies out there, even if it isn't on your personal post.
Please don't take lack of responses as a lack of warmness, as hard as it is to reach out in person, some may have a hard time responding to posts. If I haven't given you a personal welcome, I apologize, but I look forward to chatting on the forums via posts or in chat once I finish my move to my new house! Oh.. and hooking up my net. I'm at my old house, "cleaning" (not really, because clearly I'm posting!) and still have net hook up with my hubby's notebook.
Take care of yourselves, and welcome again!
With much gentleness,
Colourgirl
hi my name is kendall i was diognosed with anxiety a year ago and im kinda lost hope to hear back from you.
Hello kendall!
Welcome to Phobics Awareness! I'm sorry to hear about your diagnosis, I'm sure it's changed your life immensely. I think you will find it extremely healing to be with others who understand what it's like to live with anxiety and other disorders. It was a wonderful stepping stone for me to relate to others who felt like I did, and it helped me to isolate patterns I would fall into that were unhealthy in order to cope with the anxiety, and change them!
I look forward to seeing your posts on the forums and hope this is a great place of healing for you as well!
Take care!
Colourgirl
anyone there? i need to ask a question
are u on line?
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