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		<title>Two Thousand and Twelve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember a time when it seemed like I was aching to write a blog post every day and I even had some queued up at one time, although they were usually to express my depression and general sadness about everything. Things seemed so out of my control back then, I was consumed by suicidal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesocialphobic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4028506&amp;post=729&amp;subd=thesocialphobic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Acedia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesocialphobic.wordpress.com/?p=662</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[noun \ə-ˈsē-dē-ə\ Spiritual torpor and apathy; ennui. Though I&#8217;ve not been so badly affected by the serious symptoms of depression recently, the general lack of enthusiasm for pretty much anything is still here and has been for some time. For almost my entire life I have been interested in and loved using computers. If I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesocialphobic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4028506&amp;post=662&amp;subd=thesocialphobic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, an update.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesocialphobic.wordpress.com/?p=659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow I can&#8217;t believe it has been all this time since I wrote a post. Incidentally this will be the 200th update so I&#8217;d better try and make it a good one&#8230; I&#8217;ve started writing posts a couple of times throughout the year but could never really think of anything substantial to say. A lot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesocialphobic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4028506&amp;post=659&amp;subd=thesocialphobic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Overdue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesocialphobic.wordpress.com/?p=646</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello there. First of all I&#8217;d like to apologise for being absent for so long, I&#8217;ve been a Bad Blogger. Around the time we last left off I was going through another period of bad depression and finding myself snowed under with work and feeling rather hopeless and suicidal again. A visit to the psychiatrist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesocialphobic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4028506&amp;post=646&amp;subd=thesocialphobic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be writing a proper update soon, in the mean time take this rare and fantastic opportunity to ask me questions about anything you like http://bit.ly/bEhrEO Tagged: talking<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesocialphobic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4028506&amp;post=641&amp;subd=thesocialphobic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Out of Character?</title>
		<link>http://thesocialphobic.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/out-of-character/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesocialphobic.wordpress.com/?p=630</guid>
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		<title>A Quarter of a Century of Disappointment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday will be my birthday, I&#8217;ll be 25. I think that even though I had low expectations, if you showed my younger self what I&#8217;d be like at age 25 it would come as a huge disappointment. I seem to have missed out that part in life where you are supposed to &#8220;grow up&#8221;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesocialphobic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4028506&amp;post=629&amp;subd=thesocialphobic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retrospective</title>
		<link>http://thesocialphobic.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/retrospective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socialphobic.co.uk/?p=626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[2009 wasn&#8217;t a good year for me, in fact I&#8217;d say it was probably the worst of my life since I was in the institutional torture centre known as school. Obviously the spiralling depression and series of events that led to me finally trying and failing to kill myself in the summer was a particularly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesocialphobic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4028506&amp;post=626&amp;subd=thesocialphobic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Failed Treatments</title>
		<link>http://thesocialphobic.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/failed-treatments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I last updated, apologies. I didn&#8217;t get around to giving my therapist that letter but I did manage to express most of the thoughts in it. Quite a lot has happened with him since I last posted. As I expected, after the awkwardness of previous sessions he explained (in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesocialphobic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4028506&amp;post=623&amp;subd=thesocialphobic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to my therapist</title>
		<link>http://thesocialphobic.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/letter-to-my-therapist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can never answer honestly when he asks &#8220;How are you?&#8221; and I assume this is one of the rare occasions where an honest answer would actually be appreciated so I finally decided to write something down. I am tired and can&#8217;t really think of everything I want to say but I think this captures [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesocialphobic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4028506&amp;post=621&amp;subd=thesocialphobic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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