Besides any pain from social anxiety, I missed many opportunities to learn about dealing with people and other experiences and development and felt I suffered as a result all my life.
What does not kill you will make you stronger though, and it gives me more compassion and strength in other areas.
We are not just different, we do not just have weaknesses, we are strong.
Just as the life and death struggle of a baby chick to break out of its shell gives it strength it has to have later to survive, our experiences give us unique strengths others do not have.
In what ways can we uncover our strengths and use them for ourselves, others, and the world?
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It is wonderful you can see your social anxiety as making you more compassionate. I can relate to that. I often say to my partner that I wish I did not have BPD and he thinks I may not be so kind and understanding if I did not have it. I think having mental illness can make us more understanding of others. Look at the forum. People are struggling yet they still offer support to others.
Yes Yes Yes. One way it could helps is by others perceiving us in a better light because we helped them. Hope we get many more ideas for how to use our strengths. I need that.
Thank you. I always think how lucky I am to have him.
Having a mental illness has certainly made me have much more empathy towards people, it has changed me for the better in lots of ways, it made me stop being a workaholic and start thinking about life and more important things..to stop and make time for people...
I appreciate some of the smaller things in life, that I never did before....
Yes Olivia40 nature is beautiful, and we can appreciate it more.
Just realized working out for anxiety has made me stronger, better looking, and apparently perceived better by people. Folks now engage me that never did before.
Had to put my 2 cents in, I have always had empathy and a love of nature and beauty. Now at 77 I brought into my home and homeless a 57 year of age single woman, or am I just crazy? I have been homeless, so know what it is like, she is working now and will be gone once she gets enough $'s together. I am using lessons life has taught me. Sprinkle 1....
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Is anybody here a spouse to Anxiety and Depression fighter? How do you give support to your spouse?
I don't know what else to do.
Feel like I don't have the skills needed to live life
We are worth it. 
