I thought that the idea of having sweaty palms was disgusting and that if people found out they would turn against me, I also can’t hold a pen at school which makes things very difficult during exams. I also constantly fear that someone will ask to ‘hi-5 me’ and i get terrified when a teacher asks the class to hold hands to demonstrate atoms or something else (which they do and have done in the past)!

At first I was angry and upset, I thought it was my fault and that nobody would ever want me… and I didn’t tell anybody for nearly 3 years, when i finally got the courage to tell my parents at the doctors I felt a bit better that I was no longer carrying what felt like the world on my shoulders. I was given an anti-pespirent treatment that unfortunately hasn’t work as well as we hoped.

Later I was told it may have something to do with anxiety, I was only introduced to this website about a week ago but i’m already noticing differences in the way i think. I know know that it isn’t my fault and i am think the worst of the situation and jumping to conclusions.

In the short I highly recommend this site and I want to say thank you to what it has done for me.

Clinical depressions needs to be dealt with by a professional. There is a difference between sadness and depression that people do not pay attention to. I don’t think Moodgym or clarifylife or any online tool will be able to deal with severe cases.

Having said that for self exploration, clarifylife is great. The other tools are the psychological forums. Lots of great feedback there.

Another human is needed to detect the lies that you tell yourself. So whatever you do, there has to be some human intervention.