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Join Date: Jul 2011
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| View Poll Results: Would you join a social anxiety group in your area? (you can select multiple options) | |||
| I'd join a therapy group run by a psycologist or therapist (pay per session) |
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293 | 20.04% |
| I'd join a peer-to-peer therapy group based on commonly used CBT for social anxiety disorder (free except for CBT materials) |
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455 | 31.12% |
| I'd join a social group that focuses on doing social activities (free except for any activities done) |
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638 | 43.64% |
| I'd like to join a group, but think I would be too anxious to join one |
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565 | 38.65% |
| There are already group(s) in my area and I've attended one |
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76 | 5.20% |
| There are already group(s) in my area and I haven't attended one |
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106 | 7.25% |
| I have no interest in joining a group of any kind |
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208 | 14.23% |
| Other (include your comments in a reply post) |
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40 | 2.74% |
| Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 1462. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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A lot of support groups are more about socializing and not about therapy.
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: California
Gender: Male
Age: 30
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I haven't looked for any in my area, but I would definitely attend if it was more about socializing than sit-down, structured therapy. Would be cool if the group had people around my age as well.
Pemi
Join Date: May 2014
Location: New Hampshire
Gender: Female
Posts: 33
Something like that would be so helpful. I'm already seeing a therapist and a psych dr, but it's not really helping much, and I feel like I'm wasting my mother's money. I hope after a while I'll feel comfortable enough to actually get what I want out of therapy, and then maybe even find some meds that help. I'm trying to get into this program that's kind of like a partial hospitalization in that we do groups and see a doctor every day, but it's only for about 3-4 hours a day. It's for anyone. I hope I get to join it soon.
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: arizona
Age: 25
Posts: 55
I picked "too anxious to join one." I'd be scared I'd go to a support group only to find that everyone there has worse problems than me, and that I've just been exaggerating my own anxiety the whole time.
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Posts: 517
If there were one in eastern NY or south western Vermont hell yes.
The Harbinger
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: York, England
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Posts: 265
I'd love to join one, knowing that everyone is in more or less the same situation I am. There aren't any nearby at this time, though.
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: State Home for the Ugly
Age: 32
Posts: 4,659
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Right now, I wouldn't. I find my own ways to cope (or more likely, maladapt) when it comes to psychological difficulties. But if I ran into a hurdle and found I needed support, I'd consider it. Might even be a place to get to know similar people so I'm not against it.
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Join Date: May 2014
Location: S. California
Gender: Female
Age: 35
Posts: 213
I think I would want to join one, but there aren't any nearby. The closest ones are in L.A. which is about 30-60min away (traffic).
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Where Dreams Go to Die
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Posts: 2,493
They don't have such a thing in these rural parts, but anyways, listening to people whinge and dumping my problems on others has never been a fond activity of mine. If they are all like the movies where every body sits in a circle and holds hands and sings kumbaya and all that ****.
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Miami, FL
Gender: Female
Posts: 203
I have tried meetup.com and we do have an Anxiety group in Florida, but it is too far for me. Plus, most of the members are in their 30s. I would like it to be a nearby group with people in their 20s. I know New York has a big SA group. Those lucky b4st4rds
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: NY
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Posts: 230
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I would love to join one, but I'd have so much anxiety about it, I'd probably back out.
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Internet
Gender: Male
Posts: 12,036
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I know people have different levels of social anxiety but to me it looked like most of the people didn't have anxieties at all. I felt like an outcast. That makes it difficult to open up or start conversations. I don't know what to do anymore. Its just depressing.
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I know people have different levels of social anxiety but to me it looked like most of the people didn't have anxieties at all. I felt like an outcast. That makes it difficult to open up or start conversations. I don't know what to do anymore. Its just depressing.
Sometimes you'll feel like the outcast more in an SA group because everyone else is too anxious or conversationally-unskilled to initiate with you. That happens especially at hikes and event-type meetups, I've noticed people stick to those they know at those. You might prefer our more formal monthly SA discussion groups, or a game night... those are more inclusive than other activities.
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People often look like they don't have social anxiety, because it's not a visible thing, it's an internal experience. I'm not so bad with the group now, partly due to plowing through more than 70 regular meetups over 4 years and partly thanks to the one person I managed to connect with, but I still have some awkward times where I feel like the outcast. And if you take me outside the group, well, I haven't a clue how to react when a neighbor says "hi" or how to talk to the other 7 billion people.
Sometimes you'll feel like the outcast more in an SA group because everyone else is too anxious or conversationally-unskilled to initiate with you. That happens especially at hikes and event-type meetups, I've noticed people stick to those they know at those. You might prefer our more formal monthly SA discussion groups, or a game night... those are more inclusive than other activities.
Sometimes you'll feel like the outcast more in an SA group because everyone else is too anxious or conversationally-unskilled to initiate with you. That happens especially at hikes and event-type meetups, I've noticed people stick to those they know at those. You might prefer our more formal monthly SA discussion groups, or a game night... those are more inclusive than other activities.
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: The Past
Gender: Two-Spirit
Age: 25
Posts: 2,443
I'd join one that focuses on doing social activities. I find that doing activities takes off the pressure from having to socialize because you already have something to talk about.
green and blue
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: under the ice
Posts: 6,218
I've been thinking about joining one recently. I've just got to actually find one, and hope its close enough to me, that is if I go through with it.
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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been in so many therapy groups already
and exept for the sexual abuse therapy group the other over 6 never helped
i think that one was the easiest to ''cure'' since it was a trauma..
whatever it is what i have now...im 100% its incurable so no.
and exept for the sexual abuse therapy group the other over 6 never helped
i think that one was the easiest to ''cure'' since it was a trauma..
whatever it is what i have now...im 100% its incurable so no.
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I'm allergic to humans. Dogs or cats are the only ones I socialize with.
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: MA
Gender: Female
Posts: 327
no i don't like the whole support group type thing where we discuss our "feelings"
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