Hi. I just joined this site today and have already seen enough blogs to know that I just might be in the right place.

I'm at work, and have been struggling all week with an bad episode of depression/social anxiety. I called in sick yesterday because I just couldn't handle it. But I'm back today and since I have nothing to do thought I would do something productive for myself and look for an online community of people who struggle like me.

To make this short, I was diagnosed with depression 11 years ago. I have been on some form of medication ever since. Currently I'm on 90mg of Cymbalta. I have also been diagnosed with social anxiety and have had that for as long as I can remember. I go to an amazing therapist once a week and wish I could see her more often than that. 🙂

Since this is the tribe for anxiety, I'll focus on that. Sometimes I have my good days, but sometimes I don't. I live alone and you can usually find me in my apartment, with my cats, doing absolutely nothing, unfortunately. I always want to go out (to the gym, the mall, the coffee shop, the bookstore, the park, etc) but my social anxiety really takes over most of the time and I find reasons not to. (Mainly reasons about how I feel like a freak, look like one (I'm 6'1 and a girl), never have anything good to wear, etc.)

I always try to acknowledge that things could be worse, but somehow that never helps my case.

So anyway, wrapping this up, I hope I find some really cool people on this site and make some really cool friends. I'm great with internet friends, because you never have to go out in public. haha