I had trouble maintaining a conversation,I think it’s both a combination of my anxiety and weak general knowledge.He told me to actually know more about food and talked about food,it’s a good thing to talk about…I had knowledge about mental illness,experience about feeling down.I can talked about these,but it would be wise to know a little about other topics…
Who is good at making conversation and talking?how do you do it?
It’s good that you can talk about mental illness I’m way too scared to do that.
I talked to friends who had MI too…haha
Oh yeah but my friends with mental illness seem to dismiss everything I say. Idk
I think it’s not okay to always talk about mental illness even with people who had Mi,once in a while it’s okay,
My friends not really about mentalillness but if I sound a little off or controversial they call me out.
Well, first of all, it helps to have some standby topics. There are some things everyone is interested in, movies, holidays, food and diets, mobile phones, exercise, the weather, that kind of thing. Those are things that everybody knows something about, and so can talk about.
Then you can supplement this by talking about things from current events. It helps if you read a paper, but there are almost always some things in local papers that people enjoy discussing, or more general things in national papers or on the TV news.
In terms of how a conversation goes, one topic almost always follows on from another. So you can take those links when they come along, and kind of steer the conversation and keep the ball rolling.
I too have a hard time maintaining a conversation. I’m so involved in quasi intellectual endeavors that I have a hard time talking about normal things. Most people don’t want to talk about intellectual things. If you just want to have a safe, meaningless conversation talk about food or the weather. Being able to make oblique sexual innuendo is good in mixed company, as long as you don’t go too far with it. One thing to remember is that you should show an interest in what other people are saying. Talk to them about their lives - where they’re going to school, what kind of trips they’ve made, how their kids are doing. I don’t do any of these things, so I spend most of my time alone. I got used to that. I like it better.
getting to know other topics is pretty easy… I have an interest in a lot of things…
Sticking to a topic while talking… that is hard. I jump topic a lot.
I also tend to start off slow and then end up talking faster.
I have to slow down… listen to what the person is asking and then answer.
I’m just now starting to get comfortable in small groups…
Initiating and maintaining conversations are definitely problems for me. I tend to do better if the conversation gets round to something I am interested in.
People like to talk about themselves. A good way to have a conversation is to ask the person about themselves. Ask the other person where they went to school, what’s their job like, what do they do for fun etc.