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loopmp3 · 3 years

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i just started uni again and i feel like i've already made a fool out of myself bc i keep avoiding the others (i have social anxiety), it's only been two days and i feel like ive already ruined my 'image'. i want to change but it's like i just bring myself to look people in the eye. idk what to do.. do you have any tips on how to make friends..? i cried both days after getting home, i feel like there's something wrong with me and i'll never fit in anywhere

angel 💘 to be honest, i am also someone who struggles to make friends due to my social anxiety and so i don't know if i will be of much help to you but i will try my best... when i started university, i felt the same way. i tried so hard to make friends at the start by faking it and trying to talk to the people around me but i think eventually the "real me" came out and so i started retreating back into my shell and i think everyone noticed this too and i sadly became that quiet person again... no one really spoke to me unless i did it first. there was a time when i had a couple of friends but this was when i studied language and found people who shared similar interests as me but we sort of drifted apart after i left that university. when i changed university to study nursing, it was sort of the same at the start. but then i was paired with someone who i found out was also filo like me and we bonded over how much we loved criminal minds and then we stuck together ever since then. we're still friends now... but i think the reason it was so easy to befriend her was because of all the things we had in common? i was lucky that we happened to be paired together otherwise it would have been the same thing all over again. i have one other really close friend who i worked with for a while and so we became close because of the nature of our job and basically bonded over how difficult it was to be a nurse doing our grad year... so i guess the common thing here is that the two close friends i have now are people i have a lot of things in common with which is our job... i want to say above everything else that it's honestly so hard to make friends as someone with social anxiety so please don't think there's anything wrong with you. i happened to be in the right place at the right time. but it's hard to make friends like that... i have always struggled with making friends. i've always been an anxious person but on top of that i am so painfully shy that i struggle to initiate conversations with anyone with the purpose of becoming friends... prior to becoming a nurse, i have been friendless for long periods at a time ever since i started school. it's hard enough to make friends when you have anxiety because your brain can convince you of a lot of things... but the fact that i was friendless for so long also kind of made me feel worse about myself and so this stopped me from trying to make friends even more so than usual... it was sort of like who would want to be friends with me if i'm like this? that kind of feeling? it can be a lonely feeling... it sucks and i am sorry that you're going through this as well. but you're not alone!!! i am here and i understand what you're feeling and i always have your back <3 and i hope that you don't think of your social anxiety as something that's wrong with you because it's not. we have to learn to work around it because anxiety is an ass and shouldn't stop us from trying to make friends. we can make all kinds of assumptions about other people or how other perceive us and this can be stop us from doing a lot of things... but honestly? people are so absorbed in doing their own thing and don't pay as much attention to us as our brains want us to think and i hope this can be a comfort to you moving forward. so whatever kind of interactions you've had at university, whether good or bad, believe me when i say that the people you interacted with have probably forgotten about what happened the previous day. i know it's easy to fall back on being fixated on what we did/didn't do but i promise you that people aren't fixated on it like we are as everyone has their own things that they're thinking about so i hope this will encourage you to start fresh the next day...i think that the easiest way to befriend someone is to find something you have in common with them as this will help the conversation flow. group projects, while i can't stand them, can be helpful in at least making some acquaintances. or if you're paired with someone, this will be helpful too as you're put in that position where you have to get along to make things work. have you tried looking at the clubs there too? if you're into reading, a book club can help you find similar minded people? another thing you could try is if you're sitting with someone and you notice something they have, you can bring it up? if their wallpaper is of a dog you can comment on it and from there you can ask about them about pets... i find that pets is a relatively "safe" topic to talk about. and people are always happy to talk about their pets when i ask people about them... i think for the most part people are willing to talk to you if you talk to them... i know it's easier said than done but see how you go. sorry this got long... but i empathise with you and i wanted to give you as much advice as i can because you honestly seem like a sweetheart and i appreciate how difficult it is to navigate through life with anxiety... i am rooting for you and i hope that you are comfortable enough to take some of my advice. making friends can be hard... you and i know this very well but i hope that you can make a friend / friends who will stay by your side through the good times and bad times... you deserve it <3 take care of yourself. and above everything else, please be kind to yourself. you are trying your best with the circumstances that life has presented you so don't be so hard on yourself. you'll be ok!!! you will find your place... it may take some time but you'll get there. sending you lots of love <3

#i apologise if i wasn't of much help...#i struggle a lot with this too #but i hope you will take some my advice and see where that takes you #you seem like a good person #praying for good things to come your way angel <3 #anonymous

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seacreek · 4 years

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I don't want to write anything where irl friends would see (no one is gonna see this here anyway) but I need to get this out of me.

Liiiikeeeee

I was (am?) literally the most suicidal I've ever been in my life today (is today over if it's 2 am?) and not only can I tell that to NO ONE, but it's like God was fucking rubbing it my face all day. I actually laughed at one point bc I was driving behind someone thinking of whether I should try to do it at home or somewhere else when I noticed their license plate said KYS and then a mashup of my birthday numbers.

But like I've already been feeling this building bc I'm behind on bills and have no heat and it's gonna snow soon and it's the holidays which remind me that my family is all spread out and I don't really talk to my parents anymore and somedays I talk to no one at all but my cat and my life is going NOWHERE with no way to change that but to work myself even harder when I don't even feel like I have anything at all to give anymore.

And I already felt like calling out bc even though I chose to work Thanksgiving yesterday knowing I'd be the only one there, it was still depressing to know that normal people are with friends and family and I'm not. But I also didn't want to take up my neighbors/friends on their offers to join them bc I did that last year and got all the questions about what I was doing with my life and at the time I actually believed I'd be going back to school the next year but now I realize how I can't possibly afford that without accepting help from someone which would BE my neighbors bc my parents would not help and I can't pay for it alone. And I can't accept help from them bc I feel like I would just get overwhelmed and depressed and flunk out and waste their money anyway. And the other reason I couldn't go over there/can't is bc I already feel like such a burden to them. They do all this nice stuff for me all the time and I catch myself even EXPECTING it at times which is fucking disgusting. Even if I'm grateful and say thank you, it's not like they owe me anything just bc I have no one else to give it to me. So I need to stop accepting their help and gifts, but then I know they are judging me for that bc even though their really nice, they are also super judgmental and they really like me bc they think I have "potential", but if they knew that I'm actually just a natural born idiot and failure, they'd never want to talk to me in the first place. And also it's unhealthy probably how much I rely on their validation bc since I've known them since I was little, I'm almost using them as surrogate parents which is also fucked up bc they are not my parents, they have their own kids who actually have their lives together unlike me who is just like a pet project of theirs.

Soooo anyway I already had all this on my mind and more going into work today and when I get there, I look at the schedule and realize everyone called out but me!!!!

And so I had to make a frankenstein schedule out of all of theirs to prioritize what needed to get done and was still trying to do little favors for people in between that I didn't want to disappoint bc it wasn't their fault that their staff wasn't there to do it with them and it was getting super overwhelming. And then I'm super sensitive so when I'd have to tell someone that I COULDN'T do something extra for them that they really were looking forward to, it was already punching me in the gut to see their disappointment. But then the worst part is that they don't fully get that I'm not just choosing to do that out of spite, but I legitimately had negative amounts of time to get everything done so they would blame me for what I couldn't do for them. EVEN THOUGH I WAS WORKING LIKE 4 SCHEDULES IN 1. Like they don't have the capacity to think past what's in front of them sometimes which I understand it's not their fault, but it SUCKS bc then they are pissed at me even though I'm running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to do everything for everyone and keep them all happy and they should really be annoyed with my coworkers who didn't come in but I didn't even throw them under the bus bc it wouldn't have mattered anyway. I'm the person in front of them who is "refusing to do what they ask" so it's my fault.

So that's how my day is going everywhere I go as I rush from person to person and place to place, answering calls, improvising on the spot, and constantly having to tell someone that whatever they had planned on today isn't possible and dealing with the result of that. And the WHOLE TIME I am DAYDREAMING about how I'm gonna kill myself when I get home. Maybe slit my wrists, wait no my leg because I know I'll chicken out on the wrists, wait no, I'll drive out to the ocean and just swim out until I'm drowning too far out to save myself, wait no, what bridges could I jump from let me google that, wait no, I could take all of the pills at home together but then I might throw them up so wait no, maybe I'll drag this out and just not eat or drink til I just die nah that takes too long etc etc etc. And I'm really thinking this is gonna happen tonight bc I already wrote a letter monday or tuesday and I'm sure they'll find that pretty fast when they look in my journals so I don't even have to worry about that part, just the doing. So I'm contemplating my end of life and getting more anxious and sad with every hour passing bc I'm really thinking this is it, this is the day I'm out. But really I keep getting caught up bc my CAT who is sadly the one being on earth that I love who could never understand, is at home. And I'm thinking about how if I kill myself while she's there and it takes time for people to realize I'm missing/find me, she will be sad/hungry/thirsty in the meantime. Which is so unecessary and all of my suicide plans get scrapped if they involve direct trauma of another being and she's the one that means the most, so how could I be so selfish as to not make a plan for her?

So I'm thinking of how I have to sneak her to my sister's place while she's still at work and that's stressful enough but more so bc then I'll have a time limit on getting this done bc as soon as she comes home and sees kaiya there without me and no explanation, she'll start blowing up my phone and when I don't answer, she'll call someone. And I don't want to do that in a pressured state, I need time to process everything and think about life and what I'm doing. Plus, what if I decide not to??? (Which is what ended up happening for tonight anyway) I would've done all that for nothing and then had to confess when she found kaiya anyway and have to go to a psych ward or something which would just ruin my life faster but make it harder to get out.

So I'm thinking ALL this ALL day while working my ass off yet still disappointing everyone and swallowing tears that would turn into sobs every hour until it's time to go home.

Then I drive home and even though I pray to God to send me some sign that he cares, he doesn't.

At this point, I've already lost the fire under me so I know this is another night where I just get through it, cuddle kaiya, and wake up the next day to do it all over and I've accepted that in a way.

Then 1 am rolls around and my sister calls me to say she stopped by a party where she ran into my old best friend and friends from high school. None of whom cared enough about me to even ask what I was up to these days, even though they were talking to my SISTER. And that whole growing apart thing took such a toll on me mentally and I do feel like I'm over it now these days, but it still brought up these gross sad feelings of when I was first realizing that they didn't really care about me anymore and then fully understanding that I didn't matter to them. Which hurt SO MUCH bc they were a ride or die for me, like I would have done anything for them and I never even DOUBTED they didn't feel the same until it was so obvious I had to stop pretending around it. And that fucked with ALL of my relationships with people. Every single friend I had, I started pulling away from bc I was so insecure in myself that I felt like I had to get away from them before they had the chance to drop me which I now felt was inevitable. To this day, I feel like I have a body count of of people that I desperately want to talk to, but don't let myself bc I feel like they don't deserve to have to put up with a person as shitty and worthless as me. And I do that in every possible relationship I have, platonic, romantic, and even familial. And I can't blame them for that bc they were just a normal person growing apart from someone I guess, but I think it triggered something laying dormant in me so badly that it was actually the catalyst for my inability to connect with other people in meaningful ways. I never meet a new person anymore with the belief that they will be in my life for more than a few years at most. Most people I expect to be gone within a week or two. My walls are up so high that it's actually selfish that I even talk to people at all bc I only end up hurting them when I pull away for seemingly no reason at all. And I'm too much of a coward to tell them that there's nothing wrong with them, I just can't get that close to people anymore. Like it actually makes me physically sick to think of carrying on normal relationships with people which is SO fucked. But then I turn into the villain bc I'm worried that they'll develop the same fear of people and I'll be the cause of it. Like I'm a vampire. But I isolate myself and then get to a certain point where I think "I'll try again!! And this time will be different!! I'll really have someone new in my life!" And then I am super friendly and doing my best to be good and making plans and whatever. But then I start getting that sick feeling again, like what if what if they just haven't realized how much I suck and how disappointing I am yet, they'll definitely realize it soon and I come up with some random specific reason why they'd actually hate me if they knew "THIS" about me and I start detaching myself and then flake on plans and then disappear. And then spend weeks worrying myself sick that I permanently damaged their trust in people!!! But then I get lonely again and the pattern starts again!! All traced back to this moment in time where it actually hit me that people's affection for you can disappear in the blink of an eye no matter how much you thought they cared about you. So clearly love is conditional and just that thought alone is enough to make me want to end it all!!

So yea, just a shit day with shit cherries and cream on top.

And now it's 3am and I have to wake up in 5 hrs to do this again.

And all of this is still something no one will know if or until it comes spilling out and then my life will either be changed forever or over.

But yea, drew that lion the other day.

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