A short intro

[IBelieveICanFly]

I'll keep this short by saying that I'm a 30 year old male who is not working at the moment and never really did. I'm plagued by very high levels of anxiety in my body, which makes it hard for me to function normally in many regular social scenarios, and I'll get intimidated by people and shut down to the point of being emotionally numb, and having my social brain shut off, leaving me with a blank mind, and not feeling particularly good about myself. My anxiety also severely disrupts my sleep, making it hard to stay asleep. I have a lot of trauma from my upbringing and a few other experiences, and have a good heap of PTSD. I've been through a lot, and have been mostly by myself in those negative experiences and in the mental fallout afterwards , feeling alone through the worst of it. This is an interesting experience for me to post here, and it's nice to see so many people joining to fight a common (to them) problem and working to feel good.

[SavingGrace Administrator]

It's nice to welcome you to this HU forum group, so thank you for posting and being in touch with others here in the community.

[Marnie22 Volunteer]

Welcome. It's very nice to hear from you. You will find lots of support and interesting discussions on here as well as a place to just vent if you need to. Just a word of advice, if you are posting something that may be difficult for others to read, please put, 'Trigger Warning,' in the title or first line of your post. Thank you. 🌼

[IBelieveICanFly in reply to Marnie22]

Thanks for your welcome. It means a lot to me.

[IBelieveICanFly in reply to Marnie22]

Thanks for the advice also.

[Marnie22 Volunteer in reply to IBelieveICanFly]

👍🙂

[odinnorway]

Good to be with you here. This is actually the only place I can go where people understand.

[IBelieveICanFly in reply to odinnorway]

Thanks. I got a good feeling from this forum after seeing a few, and here I am today.

[samack]

Its a good thing to join this group. Tell us what you're thinking or need.

[IBelieveICanFly in reply to samack]

Thanks so much. I appreciate it.

[Lindyloo53 Volunteer]

Hello and welcome to the forum. I found when I joined this forum it was a safe place to land. It was nice to know I was not alone to battle with the demons of ptsd. Thank you for your introduction.

[IBelieveICanFly in reply to Lindyloo53]

Thanks for the welcome. I definitely appreciate it.