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[mouse_pad]

The Zoloft withdrawal hasn't been bad. After two weeks, though, I'm still not completely over it. I have generally felt happier and more upbeat since I've been off the pills. I guess they were moderating my good moods as well as my bad moods. Unfortunately, I'm right back where I started with the whole social anxiety and perpetual loneliness

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[gigerlicious]

The major reason I play softball is to manage my social anxiety. I generally play with people who play on two or three teams a week, and our Sunday team is their casual game. I obsess over performance and treat it like the World Series. After the game I typically feel a lot better and find my pregame attitude silly. I don't need the extra workout but I do need to force myself into that uncomfortable social situation on a routine basis because after many years, I can say it's gotten better. I measure that improvement in tenths of percentage points year after year, but it is undeniably better.

Keep making it rain!

[mouse_pad]

I occasionally check Craig's List for groups of interest. I seem to have very little interest in anything that other people do.

[gigerlicious]

Have you tried meetup.com? I found a writing group I kept up with for a couple years there, as well as some puppetry gigs. Ann Arbor also has a couple 'Adventure Clubs' which have no particular focus aside from getting together and trying new things, that can usually clear out the need for special skills or settings.

[mouse_pad]

Not lately. I'll take a look.

[saturn939]

Congrats on paying off your car loan. I think it's wonderfully responsible to pay it off that early.

-Dee