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Community for individuals with anxiety for exchange and helping each other.

This is a non-judgemental community and everyone is welcome as long as you apply to the TOS and follow basic etiquette.

No -isms, just be nice.

Keep in mind that this does not equal an exchange with a medical/mental health professional.

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I'd love to see this community get off the ground, so I thought I'd chip in with something simple. A quick check-in post to ask you all how your week is going.

I'll start. I've been taking my new medication (Venlafaxine) for 2 weeks now. I'm going back and forth over whether or not it's helping me, but I've been going on more walks (exposure) and chatting a bit more on Discord (again exposure as I have real bad social anxiety) so I feel like maybe it is? Crossing my fingers.

What about you guys? How's your week going? (and it doesn't matter if you're responding today or a year from now!)

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm past my two meetings that required significant masking - putting on my stage persona - for the week, so I'm pretty happy.

I love my job, but I feel drained before and after those occasional meetings.

Anyway, I'm settling in with my fingers crossed for an anti-social few days of coding.