Social anxiety is crippling my life, what can I do to stop it?
Apologies if this is not the appropriate place to ask this question, I guess I'm hoping that there are other "introverts" on here that have been in similar circumstances and can offer me advice. I turn 21 in a few months and I currently don't have any close friends and it is really starting to get me down. All through my life I've always been "that quiet person" and I have self-diagnosed myself with some form of moderate social anxiety. I had a large group of friends during high school and somewhat of a social life but I mostly just tagged along with the group and never became close friends with anyone. Following the end of high school I slowly lost contact with these people. My anxiety kept me from making any effort to stay in touch even though I wanted to. It's silly, but my brain processed it like this "if they don't invite me to things I guess they are not interested in hanging out w
Why it failed
Apologies if this is not the appropriate place to ask this question, I guess I'm hoping that there are other "introverts" on here that have been in similar circumstances and can offer me advice. I turn 21 in a few months and I currently don't have any close friends and it is real
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- anxiousThrowawy
- Ended
- 2011
- Source
- hackernews