(((((((Gracey)))))))))

I did call him. I even hung up a few times before I was transferred to talk to him. I was nervous and thought I was wasting his time - but he told me I never was. I felt like I was at the end of the conversation though.

He gave me a number for another person on-campus who I've already bumped into and don't like. He knows I have trouble trusting people - let alone talking to people - and I even told him I didn't want to talk. I just wanted to let him now where I was at, and get ideas about other coping mechanisms to deal. Turns out the nice sticky in the SI forum was more useful than he was. (sigh). He also told me I could phone a crisis line. Same problem with that, except even worse since it's a complete stranger.

... I'm just scared of trusting people. And he's now made me feel like an idiot.