03-19-2013, 01:44 PM
(03-18-2013, 11:53 AM)MangoEruption Wrote: From what I'm currently experiencing with AM 5.0 is that it's still plenty powerful. It will do the job and make you wonder how in the hell were you even like that before the sub started doing its magic.
Awesome, can't wait to run through it.
I thought I'd get some stuff off my mind that I've been thinking about lately.
I occasionally go on a message board dealing with social anxiety. A lot of people suffer from this problem. From the outside a lot of people just want to push these individuals into anxiety provoking situations and tell them to toughen up or get over it. A little pushing is necessary, but it can backfire and make things worse. And even if they can put themselves in those situations after a while, they still suffer from anxiety, they just learn to manage it better. It's one of those things that people tend to underestimate, like depresssion.
Anyway, I asked people on the board how many of them thought they could completely remove social anxiety from their lives. And I have to say the answers were discouraging. A lot of people stated it was part of them or you never completely get rid of it or it's just a part of life. Even worse when I stated that it was my goal to completely remove it from my life I was told that I set my expectations too high. It's really no wonder so many people have trouble overcoming these problems. They don't even believe that they can be rid of them in the first place. And when they actively voice how they want to, they are met with discouraging words instead of positivity.
I used to be the same way. If a problem beats you down so many times you just want to give in and say well this is how it's always going to be and I might as well get used to it. But now I have a goal and I've been striving to reach it. When someone tells me social anxiety is a part of me, I just tell them I don't believe that. It's taken me a couple of years to get to that point, but I think it's important to be able to understand that the only limits are the ones we set for ourselves.
