How do I get rid of social anxiety?
Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at
3:35 pm
So I have social anxiety that has been growing exponentially over the past year. All my life I’ve been shy but now I’m truly terrified of social situations or being the center of attention (like going to get my graduation photos done because my parents are forcing me, I was even considering getting doped up on painkillers before going xP) and I often find myself blushing just thinking about awkward social situations. I can’t even keep eye contact with most people.
It keeps me from doing important things in my life auuuuuugh.
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I was in the same situation as yours before. I attributed it to my not so happy youth. I have developed very low self confidence. At my age now, im still trying to cope up.
They say, FACE your FEARS. I agree. It’s working for me now. You can do it gradually. Believe in yourself. Have confidence. No one can better help you with this but yourself. You can make it.
As you know all too well, social anxiety can and does effect many aspects of our lives. Facing your fears is much easier said than done and can feel pretty overwhelming.
You might want to try some creative visualization to help with the anxiety, this can be done in the comfort of your own home on your own schedule. Find some time each day to take about 20 minutes for yourself to just sit back and relax, turn off the tv and anything else that might distract you.
Close your eyes and begin to picture yourself if some kind of a social setting, lets use the photo shoot for this example. Imagine yourself at the photo shoot, focus on your face try to imagine your smiling and laughing, all those people around you are smiling right along with you and you’re glad they are their to share in the laughter, don’t rush this part stay focus on this until you feel yourself begin to relax, then move to your shoulders and neck, try to imagine your shoulders being soft and relaxed, keep doing this with your entire body until each part is comfortable. Don’t forget to pay attention to all those people around you, moving your focus from your own body to watching everyone in the room.
Once your body is relaxed try to picture in your mind your favorite food, what does it smell like? now imagine the room you’re imagining is filled with that smell, and all of those people, and you’re perfectly comfortable. Continue on in this way, paying close attention to how you’re interacting with those in the room, tell yourself how impressed you are with how at ease you are with all these people.
It wont be easy in the beginning, you may feel kinda silly the first couple of times but trust me it does and WILL work if you commit to doing it often enough.
I have several more tips and tricks on my website that you might find quite helpful, so drop in and take a look. I wish you the very best in your journey to overcome your social anxiety, please know you’re not alone and there’s people out there that care. (I’m one of them) *big hugs*
You need social status in order to get rid of social anxiety.
learn to relax around other ppl it cant be fixed over night and it wont be easy but thats all you need to do however you do that is up to u start in small groups etc, the key is to relax, put a little more trust in strangers thats the root of the problem fear of what they are thinking about you they think nothing unless u say something work on the eye contact though thats important learn to look people in the eye if u dont ppl will think u are untrustworthy good luck plz excuse the spelling mistakes and grammar.