Posted by yankeegirl on July 28, 2003, at 1:31:52
In reply to Re: being scared to go to new places, posted by Dr. Bob on July 27, 2003, at 15:36:33
> > Part of my 'avoidant personality' is being scared to go to new places
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> That's an interesting point, I've tended to think of interacting online as more comfortable for people who are avoidant than interacting in person, but I guess there can be anxiety about going someplace new online, too... Thanks for mentioning that,
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> BobThe way I got to Psycho-Babble was to do a search on Effexor and I clicked on "Anyone having success...) and a HUGE page opened up all about Effexor. I never went anywhere else on your site. I just read Effexor posts for 3 weeks before registering. So I had no context that the Effexor questions were one of many different posts about different drugs at a place called P-B.
I would keep thinking "Who is this Dr. Bob guy?" :) ha ha
Not until we were redirected did I go to social-babble, and then it DID seem scary, cause I had been used to our little effexor neighborhood where I recognized the 'neighbors', and in social all of a sudden it was lots of different topics all at once by strangers. It didn't seem as safe.
Before this, I pretty much only did email, ebay and free cell on our computer! So please keep in mind that many of us who are starting to be treated for all these things, for us this psychiatric stuff is a whole new scary world and lots of us are coming here with no idea how these chat rooms or posting rooms, or whatever they are called, work! Yankeegirl
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