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>>4226652

I hear drowning is like god giving you a wet hug. You should look into it.

I have social anxiety, but my cure is very straightforward. I'm skinny as fuck, and do not want to go out in public because of it. Everytime I'm outside, I feel like people are laughing at me because of how skinny I am. If I was a girl, that would be cool, but I'm a dude and we;re supposed to look XBAWKS HEUG according to everyone.

that stinks man.

you should try and make friendships that dont revolve around the proximity of something that can end.

like for instance if one of those times you go out you go to the gym. and make friends there. most people try to stick with working out well into later age, and its somewhere where it doesnt really matter if you're out of college, in college,or whatever.


try to think of something like that.

I have social anxiety too, it feels like I'm just wasting time when I could be out there doing something with my life....I'm taking a public speaking class next semester, hopefully that will help me get rid of my anxiety. Just keep on trying it will get better.

I have social anxiety as well, and feel very similar. Things have improved for me the past few years, but I was really in a bad spot for a while.

I guess mostly I just have a lot of hobbies I can do on my own. I pretty much just distract myself a lot.

>>4226777
Also, don't worry about being left behind. You will get there.

>>4226803
I don't mind being behind a bit, I'm just sick of losing people I care for because they have moved on in their life and no longer have room for me, while I'm only a step further than I was and having dirt kicked in my face because the stable structure I did have built up to use as support for pushing forward just pulled the rug out from under me.

wow... talk about a faggot thread

>>4226704

> I feel like people are laughing at me because of how skinny I am. If I was a girl, that would be cool, but I'm a dude

Yeah, I'm a skinny anon too. But then I got a wig and started dressing up as a girl and now it's good to be skinny because being skinny makes it so convincing. Now people don't look and laugh at me as a skiny boy, now they treat me like a sexy girl! They open up doors for me and treat me like a lady and all sorts. Shits so cash.

>>4227333

Fuck you. I'm no faggot, faggot.

>>4227367

Well, enjoy your living life on hard mode and people laughing at you for being skinny.

Meanwhile, I will put my wig and dress on and be elevated to living life on easy mode. Everything is so much easier when everybody thinks your a girl.

>>4226704
How skinny? I'm 6'3" and 145lbs, which is pretty skinny. I use to have issues with it, but then I realized that most male fashion models these days are really skinny. I just make sure I wear nice, form fitting clothes and I look perfectly fine. Many girls love skinny guys... just ask /fa/ (if you're into that).

PROTIP: We're all ridiculous.

I used to have really bad social anxiety, and I've mostly gotten over it, but I won't lie...sometimes I still get it a bit if I go to a really busy mall, or a concert. It's no big deal.

1. Start psychotherapy. A psychotherapist can give you a reliable, sane, outside view to compare your own thoughts with. It took me years, but eventually you can learn to see just what of the bullshit your mind feeds you is true and what is just spun out of the crazy nothing in your head. When you see the difference, you'll learn how to handle it.
2. Develop a sense of humor about yourself. Maybe you are ridiculous. Maybe people are laughing at you. Big deal. You are ridiculous. Why shouldn't they be laughing? Honestly, when you can laugh at yourself, and not take yourself so seriously, you'll a) have more fun and b) not be bothered by people laughing at you behind your back, imaginary OR real.
3. Develop a sense of compassion towards other people. You're still a human being deserving of no less human respect than any other human being out there. Next time you're out, look at all those people out there. They could be anyone or anything. That ordinary soccer mom looking lady out there...she could be a professional photographer, publishing her second book (If she is, congratulations...you ran into my mom). You would never know, seeing her as one person "judging" you in the sea of people. Everyone in that crowd is a whole person with their own story, their own feelings, their own jokes...Learn to see people as not a faceless mass of judgement and you'll have a much easier time keeping your own sense of self in the crowd.

>>4226652

Wow, that chart is so true

Same here OP. When I think of all the people that came before me, and think of my future, I get really depressed and lose all motivation. When I die, even if I do great things, everyone would just forget me and I'll rot away like the other 10 trillion people before me. This thought just makes me feel so hopeless and unmotivated.

>>4227630
Right, so...if you can't get the whole universe to suck your cock, then there's no use doing anything? Did the Internet make everyone this self-absorbed or something?

>>4226652
22, leeching from my mum...doing nothing (besides a bit fencing)
i don't intend to find a job, nor do i have a driver license)

half all of my classmates are 2/3 done with their university studies (for diploma (=master degree) here).

sometimes i meet them by accident on the street...it ends up every time i am lying to them that i am studying physics (which i am not doing, though i am enrolled).


My outlook? Hazy.....please ask again.

>>4227522
this and maybe some mdma wont hurt

>>4227522
>>4228431
samefag admiring him/herself

>>4228472
no not samefag fag

Find something that you believe in. Be passionate.

the advice here is like a satirical gamut of worthless, misguided and unintentionally harmful well wishing

has anyone evar tried mdma with social anxiety?

>>4226704

I think you are just nervous about going outside for any number of reasons, right now it may have to do with your size. But if you had a different physique, would your condition really be solved? I believe you are self-handicapping.

>>4228488
then both of you just piss off.

>>4228528
you can use alcohol or any other drugs.