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The Ground Truth Project

Can we use information from blogs to determine the mental health of the blogger community?
The Black Dog Institute and Deakin University invite you to participate in a study on this.

http://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/public/research/GroundTruthProject.cfm

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I guess this could be considered a formal introduction.. though I already feel like I know most of you. I lurk around the community from time to time. It's truly a relief to read the posts here.. to know I'm not the only one who suffers with this. I've always felt like I belonged in the shadows of life, invisible to the living. Over time I became ( Read more... )

Although I do have moderate to severe social anxiety, I find that I am not always anxious. in fact, there's a certain pattern to my social anxiety that I'm wondering how I can benefit from. I notice that although my outings are very infrequent, I have no trouble being out in the withness of a trusted family member with whom I feel comfortable. When ( Read more... )

Over the summer, the QuickBooks instructor gave me a permission # to add the class.  Added the class.  Then the following session, the instructor e-mailed me that she overbooked the class and the last five customers could not take the class.  Friday, dropped the class.  That was after the drop deadline.  As a result, got a "W" in the class ( Read more... )

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Though most of the time I want to be invisible, it is for my own vanity of self consciousness. Some days I cannot help but laugh at my own narcissism.

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Ugh!  Not only did I get a jury duty summons--I didn't receive the actual form, and only knew about it upon getting a reminder in the form of a card with some phone numbers on it.  Wonderful ( Read more... )