Posted by sigismund on April 15, 2011, at 18:00:17
In reply to Anyone with social anxiety, posted by sleepygirl2 on April 15, 2011, at 17:50:47
Nothing legal helped of course, except alcohol and gapapentin and the rest of that sort of nonsense.
Easily the most effective thing is avoidance.
Heaps of things are best avoided, humans in particular.
I'm sure you will find someone to say 'Feel the fear and do it anyway. Fake it till you make it.' I feel more like 'Do you really need this?'
It may depend of the thing that makes one anxious. Parties make me anxious. I no longer feel bad about this. I think it says I can't stand that kind of communication. So perhaps the question is to do with what about the style of communication you encounter is making you anxious. Given the nature of humanity with all its complexity not to speak of evil, why shouldn't we be anxious?
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