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Blue_Dream87
09/18/20 7:14:38 PM
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The ultimate conundrum.

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Lost_All_Senses
09/18/20 7:24:11 PM
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So glad Im over that phase

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Blue_Dream87
09/18/20 7:31:34 PM
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Lost_All_Senses posted...
So glad Im over that phase

Unfortunately I cycle through this phase a few times a year. Overall I'd consider myself well but some days are too much

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Lost_All_Senses
09/18/20 8:07:49 PM
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Blue_Dream87 posted...
Unfortunately I cycle through this phase a few times a year. Overall I'd consider myself well but some days are too much

Do you fight to go out anyway? I found I was almost always glad I went in the end. Sometimes it ended up being one the best days of the year. Eventually, I just learned how to take all the weight off and going out doesn't feel like work at all anymore. A lot of it is just not caring what others get out of it or how they feel about me. I use to feel like if I couldn't be funny and playful, I was wasting everyone's time. But no one cares that much. It's not that serious.

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Blue_Dream87
09/18/20 8:12:53 PM
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Do you fight to go out anyway? I found I was almost always glad I went in the end. Sometimes it ended up being one the best days of the year. Eventually, I just learned how to take all the weight off and going out doesn't feel like work at all anyone. A lot of it is just not caring what others get out of it or how they feel about me. I use to feel like if I couldn't be funny and playful, I was wasting everyone's time. But no one cares that much. It's not that serious.

I usually do, I can deal with social anxiety that's no issue. This is just my mood is absolute shit, every single small step to going out seems like a mountain and my cognitive tricks arent able to fight that.

More of an any little trigger will make either sad/crying or extremely irritated. And subjecting people to that only makes me feel worse.

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Lost_All_Senses
09/18/20 8:22:00 PM
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Blue_Dream87 posted...
I usually do, I can deal with social anxiety that's no issue. This is just my mood is absolute shit, every single small step to going out seems like a mountain and my cognitive tricks arent able to fight that.

More of an any little trigger will make either sad/crying or extremely irritated. And subjecting people to that only makes me feel worse.

This last part of it kind of shows I was a lil right. Cause you're worried you're a negative on others. Which was my biggest problem.

I feel you though, it is different from some the other stuff you brought up. I dunno man. I feel like it's all just about fighting it and going out and proving to yourself you're making a mountain out if a molehill while also keeping the confidence alive that you still have the ability to do it if you really want. I was always scared if I said no too many times, Id just keep getting less confident. Hell, at one point, I was fighting panic attacks at my door before taking a deep breath and going to get in my friends car.


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