Posted by Eddie Sylvano on October 2, 2002, at 15:06:58
In reply to My therapist gave me homework and I'm scared., posted by Tabßitha on October 2, 2002, at 4:06:41
> I have to make conversation with a guy in the coffeeshop. I keep seeing perfect opportunities and wrecking it by being just frozen with shyness.
-------------------------I don't think that "normal" people meet each other by that route either. How many couples do you know that met by having one spontaneously introducing themselves to the other in a public place? Almost without exception, every couple I know met either at work, or because they were part of a group of common friends. For me, the most useful exercises were simple things like maintaining eye contact with people, or asking someone the time.
Also, the therapist seemed to generalize my social anxiety to everyone I met, but I was perfectly fine talking to, say, old people. It was people in my peer groups that I had a problem with.
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