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    NEET

    What are your guys thoughts on NEETS? for those who don't know NEET is an acronym from The UK. it stands for Not In Employment Education Or Training it refers to people who are unemployed not in school and not in vocational training. I have been a NEET for 5 years now i used to go outside...
  2. A

    I don't know what to do anymore

    Anybody else on here have a legit fear of other people or feel like you're so socially inept to the point where you can not communicate with the majority of other people? My mom and social worker came to visit today they were giving me crap about not leaving the house and not working i feel...
  3. A

    I hate my life and myself

    Where do i start? well first off i hate my life and myself i was never meant for this world my birth was an accident. I have been let down hard by the system and people in general as well way too many times and i feel i am not compatible with society due to all the pressure stress and trauma...
  4. A

    Hikikomori Japan's bedroom shut-ins

    I am curious as to what other users on this forum think about the hikikomori phenomenon in Japan? For those who don't know hikikomori is a social condition caused by a group of symptoms that result in the affected individual withdrawing from society and living in isolation in their...
  5. B

    anxiety working in a group but trying hard to make it

    hi, here I am again asking for life advice... I have bad experience with feeling uncomfortable working in a group for one project. Once, I was in a theatre group as one of the choir, and somehow I got into certain awkward situation and couldn’t really talk with anyone in the group. I got...
  6. Z

    No friends, no love, no hope

    No friends. That's right, none. I am not joking or exaggerating in the least bit when I say this. People don't dare to be around me. All throughout middle and high school, everyone on campus has always put in their best effort to stay away from me. I've also never had a GF. All around me, I seem...
  7. gypsylee

    Social Phobia When I Haven’t Slept.. Anyone Else??

    I’ve been up all night (it’s 1:30pm now) and it’s my own fault, but I’m having an anxiety attack about leaving my house. My social anxiety hasn’t been bad at all lately, but if I haven’t slept it’s like I’m not fit to go out in public. Like a zombie or something? :confused: I’ll do it (I need...
  8. sisyphus

    Family trouble

    I don't get along well with my family. My entire life I felt like they hated me. They have stopped and became "supportive", stopped the abuse (specially physical) bad everything. But they never noticed I was depressed, they ignored all of my mental health issues and have always put me as lazy...
  9. Trixie

    When General Anxiety, PTSD, and Social Anxiety Collide

    As if I wasn't stressed enough about everything else going on and specifically about the doctor's appointment I had this afternoon (oh, yesterday, now; it's after midnight), my car wouldn't start when I got in my car to leave for that appointment! Thankfully, the ex-boyfriend was still home; so...
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