Discussion How do you cope with Social anxiety?

[Benj-amin]

I have had social anxiety for fucking ever. I am do not even want to leave the fucking house because of the YEARS of shit interactions with fucking people. The gaslighting, the insults, the laughs, the bullshit, everytime I see a fucking normie in person the hatred and flashback of this shit wells back up
Therapy has not done a single fucking thing, I have been going to therapy since kindergarten thanks to my IEP and shit, and everything I was told was just "Suck it up bro" or "Who cares what they think?", Bullshit responses and advice that never addressed the underlying issue. I see people having normal and pleasant conversations and good social lives and love yet when I look for the same I get burned and ignored and turned down countless fucking times, I can't even practice these fucking social skills because no one wants to spend time with me or talk to me, everyone is in their own fucking cliques, and everyone outside is some enemy or potential adversary or prey waiting to get pounced on. These bitichass therapists fucking told me straight LIES! "Oh you need to practice social skills" hahahaah where?
I do not want to LDAR on section 8 and Foodstamps all day. I just want a fucking normal life.
I am 20 years old, supposed to be in my fucking prime, and yet I can't even have the courage or the drive to step outside of the apartment to get training for work.

How do you guys cope with this Social anxiety? It never feels good interacting with people, not to mention that I feel drained whenever I do.

 

[Deleted member 22571]

By avoiding social situations like the plague.

 

[ULTRAMAN]

the only way I can have less social anxiety is with alcohol and medication. the therapist's advice is just bullshit and wasted money.

 

[Benj-amin]

By avoiding social situations like the plague.

That is what I do, but I need to find work.

 

[Deleted member 21768]

By avoiding social situations like the plague.

Only answer.

 

[Deleted member 8884]

By telling yourself it's not social anxiety and it's a decision you're making.

Ask yourself, do you really want to be extroverted or are you just placing yourself beneath them mentally?

This helps me.

 

[Deleted member 22571]

That is what I do, but I need to find work.

If you don't mind minimum wage, just become a dish washer. You literally just sit alone in the back of a restaurant washing dishes for 7 hours. You barely need to speak to anyone. But if you want a job that pays more, idk what to tell you.

 

[Quarantined]

just remind myself that normies and women are scum.

 

[sadboyo123]

I don't tbh, Just stay away from public gatherings.

 

[Mainländer]

Just realize most people also have that shit.

 

[Deleted member 24876]

Medication helps but isnt that effective.

 

[Sennacherib]

How do you guys cope with this Social anxiety?

Mainly by not interacting with people irl,on the very rare occasions that i go out i take a couple xans to calm my fucking nerves.

 

[Indari]

microdose psilocybin

 

[IECEL]

A psychologist once told me the best way to cure anxiety is to be the center of attention, to even make fun of yourself, most of the times it won't be as horrible as the anxiety makes you think it'll be.

 

[Speed]

Drugs and alcohol.

Also microdose shrooms theory.

Before I knew I was getting into social interactions, I'd take just a bit of liqor. Maybe a glass of wine. Enough to loosen you up. Although you don't want to use it as a total crutch obviously.

 

[Benj-amin]

A psychologist once told me the best way to cure anxiety is to be the center of attention, to even make fun of yourself, most of the times it won't be as horrible as the anxiety makes you think it'll be.

That only made my fucking problem worse.

Just realize most people also have that shit.

So most people are too terrified to leave their homes or even to get fucking job training needed for work?
I highly doubt that to be true.
Compound that with bad facial genetics, being black in a racist state like the US, and autism. There are not that many people in my predicament compared to those conformist clique formers.

 

[AnotherInsertCel1]

Only interact with purpose.

 

[Deleted member 28304]

By avoiding social situations like the plague.

 

[_realist_]

By avoiding social situations like the plague.

I recommend telling yourself nothing really matters.