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photography_bloke

photography_bloke

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Carole said:
Quite a lot of people feel shy or uncomfortable in certain situations.

However, if your shyness is really holding you back and impacting on your life ...have you thought about taking steps to "not be shy"?

Or to find a way to deal with it?

A really good hypotherapist can help with this.
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I've had a good few years - I've generally been feeling positive, but I guess it's just been eroding away recently

I've had a few knockbacks in recent months - I'm off to the doctor next week, I'm hoping he can give me some advice to put things back on track. Feeling a bit better right now, so hopefully my head will stay clear for a while
 
Carole

Carole

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photography_bloke said:
I've had a good few years - I've generally been feeling positive, but I guess it's just been eroding away recently

I've had a few knockbacks in recent months - I'm off to the doctor next week, I'm hoping he can give me some advice to put things back on track. Feeling a bit better right now, so hopefully my head will stay clear for a while
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To be honest rather than the doctor I was thinking more to do with your confidence and shyness problem which the doctor probably cant help with.

I do know someone that was shy once and they had a couple of sesssions with a hynotherapist....that person has so much confidence now.
 
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proactive

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photography_bloke said:
I've had a good few years - I've generally been feeling positive, but I guess it's just been eroding away recently

I've had a few knockbacks in recent months - I'm off to the doctor next week, I'm hoping he can give me some advice to put things back on track. Feeling a bit better right now, so hopefully my head will stay clear for a while
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Life's a funny old thing and there's absolutely no telling how things will pan out, I have found. I used to be VERY shy back in the day but I'm not any more. No magic cure, it just seemed to get less and less over time. See the doc by all means but I think the only thing you or anyone can do is just ride the waves and wait for life to pan out in one way or another.

You are what you are.
 
photography_bloke

photography_bloke

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I'm hoping more to get the depression in check, and try and settle my head down a bit, right now it's all over the place and it ain't pleasant

Hypnotherapy is something I've thought about, and I will definitely have a look at it - it worked for my Mum many years ago, but I've always been a bit unsure about it

I'm certainly a lot more confident now than I used to be, especially at work - it's taken many years though, but it has got there. I now have a teaching qualification!!
 
arthur

arthur

Nixon Garden Neatness
Who would let cats in the bedroom - i won't allow mine in my bedroom its clean and i dont want filthy paws on my duvet. and the thought of them being in my bed is awful dreadful i shudder at the thought, what if they decided to sufficate me in my sleep.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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arthur said:
Who would let cats in the bedroom - i won't allow mine in my bedroom its clean and i dont want filthy paws on my duvet. and the thought of them being in my bed is awful dreadful i shudder at the thought, what if they decided to sufficate me in my sleep.
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I was staying at a friend's house once, and was in the early stages of a cold at the time. I was warned that, if I left the door of my attic bedroom open, the cats would hassle me. This was of no concern, so I decided to allow them access.

I woke up the next morning and was clearly in the advanced throes of man-flu. The gurgling noises as I breathed indicated a headful of snot. However, as I became slightly less comatose, it became apparent that the noise was not me, but the cat that was asleep next to me, with his nose in my ear.....
 
arthur

arthur

Nixon Garden Neatness
Shyness can be a real problem. I’ve known a few people that struggle because of it. Whilst some people accept that it’s the way they are and they don't let it bother them too much; there are others that think their lives are less fulfilled because of it.

Perhaps a referral from the GP to the emotional wellbeing center may help. We all get sick sometimes in our lives and being unwell emotionally is no different than a broken limb - we need to heal and there are different options on how you manage and cope with depression –shyness – lack of confidence.

I would recommend taking professional advice about feeling low/depressed and reading books about shyness and developing self-confidence. I think that confidence is a trick that we can learn. Many confident people appear calm collected and knowledgeable on the outside whilst on the inside paddle away hoping we won’t sink

Hope you start feeling better soon
 
Glam

Glam

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Gramaisc said:
I was staying at a friend's house once, and was in the early stages of a cold at the time. I was warned that, if I left the door of my attic bedroom open, the cats would hassle me. This was of no concern, so I decided to allow them access.

I woke up the next morning and was clearly in the advanced throes of man-flu. The gurgling noises as I breathed indicated a headful of snot. However, as I became slightly less comatose, it became apparent that the noise was not me, but the cat that was asleep next to me, with his nose in my ear.....
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Our 3 have the run of the house all day, we put them down at 8pm, that's the time they all decide go use the dirt boxes.
 
arthur

arthur

Nixon Garden Neatness
Our cats wake up at night I always think that it's where the saying ‘a night on the tiles’ come from cause they slide on the kitchen tiles when their running around
 
arthur

arthur

Nixon Garden Neatness
4.30 am and still can’t sleep - I think it’s because I’m a workaholic - I can’t switch off. I used to have cleaning OCD but got over that - my office and my house are cluttered and a mess, I still clean but I’m not so obsessional.

So now I seem to have switched my obsessional behaviour to work and I can’t switch off from planning, statistics and satisfaction surveys. I’m losing the plot or I might have already lost it and I simply haven’t noticed because I’m so caught up in statistics
 
littleme

littleme

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4am has also become my best friend again - it seems that the answer to everything is 4am, not 42 :(
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

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peggy said:
I'm a raving insomniac. Something I was prescribed to help was an antihistamine called Atrax. It contains sedative properties, it's non addictive and has few side effects. It does work, clearly I haven't taken it tonight though! I haven't made it to bed before 4.00am for as long as I can remember, often I don't bother and try to catch up in the day, a luxury I know most don't have.
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