Thread Topic: What are you reading?
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erinro
Joined: Nov 13, '09
Status: Junior User |
2009-11-19 20:39:24 |
| Am wondering if people are reading any books that help you to understand or feel better about your social anxiety? I just read The Waves by Virginia Woolf and it describes social anxiety in a positive light as afflicting a character who is very sensitive and artistic etc - a payoff for being ill at ease with the world... | |
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Unanswered Thread: Cyclothymia posted by Darkman33 3 minutes ago |
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Jeanine
Joined: Nov 2, '09
Status: Junior User |
2009-11-20 10:16:40 |
| Nope,bt lookin out for it | |
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Beka
Joined: Nov 9, '09
Status: Junior User |
2009-11-20 10:19:31 |
| idk where to find books like that | |
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disorderguy
Joined: May 5, '09
Status: Admin |
2009-11-20 14:08:16 |
One way to discover books is on Amazon's Listmania . Searching for "shy" for instance, I found this list of books aimed at shy teens. The Catcher in the Rye was a good one. |
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Delirius
Joined: Nov 3, '09
Status: Junior User |
2009-11-20 16:24:17 |
| I wish I could link stuff | |
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erinro
Joined: Nov 13, '09
Status: Junior User |
2009-11-20 16:34:17 |
| The Bell Jar is good IMO. Also Cockroach by Rawi Hage. Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid. Fight Club, sort of. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood. Will Self, The Quantity Theory of Insanity. And out of older stuff, Mrs. Dalloway, The Metamorphosis, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Scarlet Letter, Bartleby. | |
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Acedia
Joined: Dec 2, '09
Status: New User |
2009-12-02 07:14:31 |
| I don't know if it really counts, but "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" was a really awesome book, and really affected me. | |
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Novocain
Joined: Dec 3, '09
Status: New User |
2009-12-05 20:52:39 |
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I don't read many novels, but lately I've been really into a lot of Japanese comic books. (Yeah, I'm a dork...) Particularly this one called Akira. It's kind of like this post-apocalyptic, pseudo scientific story about this gang of biker kids who get involved with this organization that dabbles in experiments with children with psychokinetic abilities. It seems like a crack plot but it's actually extremely interesting when you get into it. One of the main characters in the gang, named Tetsuo, is this total basketcase. His friends make fun of him because he's quiet and somewhat more sensitive than the troubled kids of his group. I can totally relate with him, because he's socially unconfident and terribly unstable. I just adore him, he's so damaged. I don't know, you guys are probly a bit too old to like comic books, but it's a great read, and it helps me in the worst of times. |
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Van Der Graff
Joined: Nov 19, '09
Status: New User |
2009-12-06 07:29:27 |
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Notes from underground (Dostoyewski). I liked it, then it got boring. From part two "At that time I was only twenty-four. My life was even then gloomy, ill- regulated, and as solitary as that of a savage. I made friends with no one and positively avoided talking, and buried myself more and more in my hole. At work in the office I never looked at anyone, and was perfectly well aware that my companions looked upon me, not only as a weird fellow, but even looked upon me--I always fancied this--with a sort of loathing. I sometimes wondered why it was that nobody except me fancied that he was looked upon with aversion? [...] It is clear to me now that, owing to my unbounded vanity and to the high standard I set for myself, I often looked at myself with furious discontent, which verged on loathing, and so I inwardly attributed the same feeling to everyone." |
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