I've had severe social anxiety since I was 14 years old. I am nearing 30 and it only seems to get worse. I wasn't like this as a kid something just switched in my brain one day and life has become intolerable ever since.
It doesn't get better with time. It only gets worse. Maybe with treatment it helps but I wouldn't know.
>>772655As someone who's 33 who's been dealing with this, the only solution is exposure, sorry. You have to force yourself to socialize. Easiest ways are family and work.
my social anxiety got better with time. now i dont care when i talk to strangers, but i still cant relate to other people and make friends
Try psychedelics, I used Iboga and it helped me. Definitively not a cure but way more effective than talk therapy
Exposure, keep going out, talk to people, seek new experiences, embarrass yourself. If that fails, MDMA.
>>772682>the only solution is exposure, sorry.34 and came her to say this. the longer you hide from it the worse it gets, but the more you throw yourself into it, the more comfortable you may become, or at least, less anxious.
>>772655Realize that you are a worker and that it is your inexorable fate to work. You will work and interact with people. You should stop caring about the outcome. Give up the control. Know that there is no free will. Therefore dont search within yourself a will or soul or your "self" to blame your current situation on