(Got something you thing would be useful here - quote me and I will add it!)
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I just don't want to feel like I'm intruding. I feel like I'll be a nuisance if I go and just left alone I guess (like here at uni.)
I'm hoping that it'll help me improve with some of my social anxiety, especially as you guys will be more understanding. But I've got to make sure everyone's alright with me, otherwise I won't come.
Well I don't think anyone will mind (And some of us would definitely like to see you there! (If we go ))- and as you say, it'd be good for you to come
Hey guys! New thread! Thanks for the support since I've been on here. Had a rough few weeks. Don't know what to do, home life is seriously messed up, college is pressuring me way too much. Feels all too much at the moment.
I make myself feel worse by constantly checking twitter of people I know, and looking at their great nights out and friendships and wishing I was one of them.
I think we're all guilty of this sort of thing. That's why I don't have people i know added on twitter and rarely log onto Facebook. I don't even have WhatsApp, I must be an outsider to society! Feel much better for it though.
Well if I don't read it there I'll only hear them chat about it at school. I haven't been out with a friend in 3 years, and I just want to belong somehow - just to have a bit of fun with people who I trust.
I've been ok. Asides from some major panics I haven't been too bad lately. The only thing in the world that actually is getting me down right now is lack of friends. I have two awesome friends - we've been friends for like 6 yrs, but they are a part of another group of friends that I feel an outsider too, and they only do stuff with their group, and not me.
Yourself?
Is it possible you could be introduced to their friendship group? I'm sure they're lovely people and would accept you.
Eh I've been alright, new medication this week has helped a lot I feel. I'm scared for next week though.