Friends

[Charlotte_]

Well thanks to social phobia I find it really hard to communicate with real people in real life.

I have extreme trust issues when it comes to friends :/
I keep choosing the wrong people to be "friends" with too.
I really wish I had more friends -.-
Anxiety sucks!

[mlj86]

Well thanks to social phobia I find it really hard to communicate with real people in real life.

I have extreme trust issues when it comes to friends :/
I keep choosing the wrong people to be "friends" with too.
I really wish I had more friends -.-
Anxiety sucks!

I feel the same way :( I don't have any friends unfortunately.

[Shadowtime]

You may find that online is a great way to make new friends. You should eventually challenge yourself to meet them, but if things don't go to plan there will be no pressure to see them again. Nothing to lose, everything to gain!

[JenXO]

I have extreme social anxiety I always go quiet in a group setting.

[Ecphonesis]

I feel the same way, I actually ended up losing a lot of friends over the past 5 years because of this. It sucks a lot, and it's difficult when you do want friends but are having trouble making them since you find it hard to communicate. I agree with Shadowtime, online is a great way to meet new people. You could give yourself time to feel comfortable with them, and get to know them, and then maybe one day meet them. :)

[J19o94y]

Its so hard to go through so much when you cant just called a friend up but the what I've experienced is that the friends I did have found me irrational but they just didn't understand what I was going through I guess they thought I was just odd so I scared them away lol

[jessed03]

I think you have 6 new friends on this thread. Hey, this making friends stuff isn't so hard, huh? :P

Do you ever get to be around like minded people or are you a little different compared to your environment. You look pretty young, so I mean as you get older you should be able to hopefully find a career path and choose a location that puts you close to people and things that 'agree' with you more.

What are you doing at the moment? College, uni, work, nothing?

[rainbow1]

I think you have 6 new friends on this thread. Hey, this making friends stuff isn't so hard, huh? :P

Do you ever get to be around like minded people or are you a little different compared to your environment. You look pretty young, so I mean as you get older you should be able to hopefully find a career path and choose a location that puts you close to people and things that 'agree' with you more.

What are you doing at the moment? College, uni, work, nothing?

Totally agree with your comment :) finding myself that at least this forum and others shows there are thousands of people the same as me just haven't met them yet or they are only a message online away..... Keep going x

[aerowaffle]

It's definitely comforting to know there are others who suffer the same issues. I have severe social anxiety which started when I was really young. (I was always the shy one) so it was always hard to make friends. Being able to talk to people online has really changed my life in a lot of ways. Count me in as another friend :)

[Jonathan Wallcroft]

I've developed really bad social anxiety over the past 6 months it's made me realise that some people I thought were my friends really aren't very nice people, conversely some people I didn't really know it turns out we're great fans really supportive people. I guess it's just down to time eventually you'll be able to see who is really there for you and who usnt

[Lord Jazzinho]

I can say a lot on this subject but I'll try and keep it brief, so here goes, you don't know who your real friends are until your friendship is tested when I was younger I new a lot of people and called them friends but only one of them truly was. To trust someone you have to know them because from what I've seen in life you can only trust a person to be what you know them to be e.g. if you know them to be a thief and let them into your house, you should not be surprised if they steal from you and so on. As for groups well to be honest I tend to go quiet when I am around a lot of people but Im more of a one on one sort of person maybe some of you are to. As for making friends thats a lot easier to when you got something in common so you have come to the right place and although all us are just words and pictures on a page right now your friendships from the internet as far as you like. I made a friends on Xbox live (My first real social interaction for 8 years at the time) and eventually we went on days out and one of them even stayed at my house a few times.