'Disorder Rating Information      Paranoid: Moderate more info | forum|||I've been told more than once I should have my own radio show, and one acting director I've had constantly told me he thinks my voice is fantastic. Personally, it's hard for me to see the appeal....|||My favorite video game is easily Metroid: Prime. I love the pure sense of atmosphere and adventure it gives me, how it truly makes me feel immersed in an alien world that I'm completely free to...|||Lonely, abandoned, longing. I think I'd give anything for a hug and someone to talk to.|||Everywhere I feel like an outsider, unnecessary, the extra piece that got accidentally packaged with the rest of the jigsaw puzzle. Where I see problems, everyone else sees advantages or comfort, and...|||Isolated, ignored, misunderstood - like I exist in a glass box everywhere I go.|||Thank you so much for all the responses so far! It's my first real thread, and I wasn't sure how well it'd go over, but you've all given some great advice.  I think the problem for me might lie in...|||Happy I was sorta kidding, but thanks anyway. Something along those lines would be nice, I think.|||I propose that we implement a hug button in addition to the thank button.|||As some might guess from the excessive posts I've made about it already, I've been feeling incredibly depressed for quite some time now. One of the things about it I've found hardest to deal with are...|||-The satisfaction of helping someone in their time of need -Our gift for deep (overly) analytical thought -Abstract thinking and metaphors coming so easily to mind -A sense of wisdom learned early...|||Why can't I work up more confidence in myself? It makes me feel so worthless and ignored...|||You know, sometimes, people get sentimental value from the groups they're in, and sometimes, they get very emotional about it. Who the hell are you to question that, to act as if you're above it...|||The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood  Dystopian fiction told through stream-of-consciousness narration. What's not to love?|||I'm very solidly introverted. But it doesn't mean I don't struggle with loneliness. It's been my experience that introversion is something of an obstacle to connectedness, really.  I think I just...|||Why is it that no matter how many people I talk to, no matter how connected I feel in one moment, I always end up going home feeling depressed and alone?  I wish it would go away...|||Taphos  I hear the voices past the stone, The words all muffled by the walls  (The air stays still     in suffocating calm) Inside the earth I sink down deep,|||Thank you for your support. I want you to know that hearing that does give me a little extra bit of light.  I hope you find a way out of your despair as well.|||Depressed and so very, utterly, hopelessly lonely. I feel like I'm descending back into that dark place I thought I was out of. It's scaring me.|||Extroverted, cheerful, kind, and passionate people that love finding deeper meanings and exploration of all sorts. Generally helps if they tend to be individualistic and are very much their own...|||The First Step  From a whisper I discover escape And wander in The new questions|||I got a 10.  My self-confidence tends to fluctuate, however. Plenty of my answers on this test contradicted one another, in fact, though I'd still say I answered honestly.  But I agree with...|||Immobilized. Unsure of what I want. Not despairing so much as dull.|||It doesn't seem very practical to try to solve my current problems by picking up new ones. And of course, it is impossible to use materialism to solve an immaterial struggle.  But today I am...|||Tired, but I think I can continue on. After some rest, that is.|||So awfully sad. Full of the urge to hide away in a dark corner somewhere. I wish I could just get out of my head...|||When people use math terminology as verbs. You do not times 3 by 4 to get 12, you multiply it. You do not minus 6 from 23 to get 17, you subtract it.  And other glaring grammatical mistakes as...|||While I understand and admire the concept of unconditional love, I have always found the term for it to be a bit contradictory, since, as Arclight pointed out, everything has conditions. One might...|||Sonically rich music, good literature, meditation, cutesy/heart-warming films or TV shows (usually animated), finishing a musical or written project, and petting cats.  Oh, and hugs. Those are nice...|||Like I'm completely invisible, and unable to interact with the world. Filled with an urge to lock myself in my room and cry for hours.  So what else is new?|||If only I could be more open and kind around people, if only I could leave some sort of positive impact on them, maybe they'd care about me... But no one ever will. All I'll ever be is ignored and...|||My avatar is a picture of Grey Voice, an important but perhaps not terribly well-known character from the Metroid games (a series which I admire tremendously, primarily for its ability to flawlessly...|||3) Withdrawn, retiring, dreamy, hardheaded, reserved 4) Irritable, touchy, suspicious, undependable I think I get a bit of 1 in there too, but not enough to beat these two.|||Well, I'll give answering these questions a go.  In general, I'm a very neat and organized person, occasionally to extremes; I have tendencies to make sure chairs are perfectly parallel to the...|||Horribly depressed. Well, actually, worse than that, as it's mixed with a heavy dose of misanthropy as well. No one else seems to have any sense of justice or knowledge of the radical idea that other...|||Toxic relationships are so utterly depressing to see. One party so self-centered and heartless that they profit from emotional abuse, the other so passive and meek that they just take it all without...|||Btmangan is profoundly analytical, always reliable to give greater insight into an issue. He's never afraid to speak his mind, which is helpful as it gives us insight into a rather well-thought-out...|||Never directly, but I can certainly gather that people think of me that way. There's always a sense of shock on the rare occasion that I swear or make a crude joke - they just don't see it coming...|||Why, oh WHY did I have to be born allergic to cats? It feels so cruel to not be able to pet one without having my eyes itch like mad immediately afterward. :crying:|||I do sometimes, and it frightens me. One of the few qualities I let myself be proud of is my concern for other people, and when I find my belief in that quality to be contradictory to my actual...|||You're a great listener. You have such a great understanding of language. You always help me so much. Have you ever thought of going into radio? Because you have such a nice voice.  But...|||I vaguely recall seeing these back when I was in elementary school (I was fortunate enough to receive an education that focused a great deal on different cultures and viewpoints). I don't think I...|||I keep working to cheer myself and get myself motivated and out of my head but nothing's working. No matter what I do, everything just keeps looking so bleak...  I would give absolutely anything to...|||Well, look at that. I made another post that just went on whining about poor me this and that AGAIN. It's incredible. Absolutely incredible. I join a forum full of nice, intelligent people, and I...|||I think about it often. Heck, it's in the back of my head right now.  The reasoning for it varies. Sometimes I feel so guilty and full of self-loathing that I believe I deserve to die, and doing it...|||Horribly depressed. Full of guilt and self-hatred. The air is a foul pestilence of vapors.  It went away for awhile and I thought it might last. But it didn't. It never does...|||Well, for me, the problem stems from a sense of loneliness, isolation, and alienation, which leads to a craving for contact and to feel valued in the eyes of another, or at least for some form of...|||Rather ill.   And strangely lonely. That lust for attention that always makes me feel guilty.|||I got a 23. I've identified as an HSP for awhile now. It's been pretty helpful to see information on the subject.|||Neutral Good- A neutral good character does the best that a good  person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and  magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good...'