clickaway
16-11-05, 20:06
I feel that much of my anxiety revolves around my inablity to go out and meet people. I can never take the lead and make friends and always feel very negative about how they see me and my home.
The result is that most of my friends are in cyberspace, especially as I no longer go out to work.
So I have now begun on a plan (of sorts) that I hope will lead me to meet more people and be more comfortable with everything. I have found that my town runs a drop-in style social club on a Friday evening, and this is geared for people with mental issues. People can watch TV or surf the net, but I prefer to chat to people in the main lounge as this is what I need.
I had mixed feelings at first as some of the people there are not like the people whom I am used to mixing with, but others appear perfectly normal! Anyway, I'm going to stick with it - the first night I met a couple who promptly asked me to take a photo of them the next week as they were getting engaged. So last week I popped over to their flat and sipped some wine and snapped lol.
That day I had already met someone from a website up in London for a beer or two, so ended up getting a cab home. Can't remember the last time I had to do that lol.
I'm wondering if your town has a similar facility? They also run a Sunday Lunch Club so may partake in future. I found out about it from a noticeboard in my doctor's surgery, but I imagine the Community Mental Health Team would know about such things too.
Cheers,
Ray
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
~Mark Sanders and Tia Sillers
The result is that most of my friends are in cyberspace, especially as I no longer go out to work.
So I have now begun on a plan (of sorts) that I hope will lead me to meet more people and be more comfortable with everything. I have found that my town runs a drop-in style social club on a Friday evening, and this is geared for people with mental issues. People can watch TV or surf the net, but I prefer to chat to people in the main lounge as this is what I need.
I had mixed feelings at first as some of the people there are not like the people whom I am used to mixing with, but others appear perfectly normal! Anyway, I'm going to stick with it - the first night I met a couple who promptly asked me to take a photo of them the next week as they were getting engaged. So last week I popped over to their flat and sipped some wine and snapped lol.
That day I had already met someone from a website up in London for a beer or two, so ended up getting a cab home. Can't remember the last time I had to do that lol.
I'm wondering if your town has a similar facility? They also run a Sunday Lunch Club so may partake in future. I found out about it from a noticeboard in my doctor's surgery, but I imagine the Community Mental Health Team would know about such things too.
Cheers,
Ray
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
~Mark Sanders and Tia Sillers