I know this is probably the wrong place for this but... anyone every cured their social anxiety? and how?

i know this is probably the wrong place for this but... anyone every cured their social anxiety? and how?

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I had E.C.T. done and my G.A.D. and chronic depression went away.

Isolation

is that even still legal?

I began volunteering at a new history museum which had been started by a local doctor who was putting his private collection of artifacts on display to the public. I started off just kind of following him around and assisting with the tours he gave, and then would wander around to talk to individual visitors and answer their questions. Eventually I was giving the full tours to groups myself, and as the museum really took off and grew in popularity (it's now the top-rated attraction in my city) I was at times standing in front of groups of 100+ people.

It helped that it was a topic for which I had enthusiasm and knowledge. It helped that the audience by virtue of just visiting the museum was already clearly interested in the things I could talk to them about. It helped early on that I could just answer short questions and then let people continue to browse.

yeah they stopped using insulin shock therapy.

I developed "floating" anxiety* in my early teens. Nothing harsh nor clinical, but I think it will prosecute me for the rest of my life.

Therapy and positive thoughts help a lot. I can barely feel it atm. This nigga paved the way to how good I feel at the moment too. Even some people around me noticed and mentioned it.

*floating anxiety is kinda like a feel of anxiety you get randomly. Prone to feel it around people, specially strangers.

basically put yourself in social situations till youre numb to the fear

lots of exercise, medication, and thc.

I'm partly an assburger in many regards and have an anxious and avoiding personality. Great trouble talking to girls at all even though I tried my best. Only changed in college, when I got fit and extroverted friends. Finding a GF was only successfull after finding female friends that I had no interest in first. But after all you have to still throw yourself out there at some point. I started a job in a call center for medical emergencies (poisoning) to get warm with phone calls which I hate dearly.

Basically any social job that you are intelligent enough to master will force you to talk once you are secure enough on the knowledge part.

>anyone every cured their social anxiety? and how?
By actually doing what my doctor said. Basically slowly break your self out of your comfort zone. I had to start slowly.

Except for pills that will fuck you up really hard 10 years later only confrontation therapy and resolving your current issues that hold you back from talking to people will ever cure this fucking brain tumour of a mental disease.

From what i've heard, it's like a muscle. You start off really fuckin slow, like just attending a public party and doing nothing, and eventually you get better at talking to people because you're more used to social interaction.

I am 30 now and I lived to 28 without any social anxiety. At 28 my life was miserable. I was overweight, had nerve pain, didn't have a lot going for me etc... ended up suicidal and seeing a therapist and am mostly better now.

First step I would say is realize that what you are doing now currently isn't working, and something needs to change to cure yourself. Finding a therapist is scary, but it turned my life around 100%. I ended up losing 70 lbs and am now in the best shape of my life. I actually enjoy the gym and running now. My social anxiety came from being unsatisfied by myself, so I was scared to be around others. I'm sure there are many causes of anxiety, but this was my situation and I hope it can help you man.

i stoped eating gluten, that helped for me.

Solzjenitsyn, the dragon!

I have pretty serious anxiety. I took meds for a year and during that time got help with the issues that caused it. I'm not 100% cured, but I'm functioning like a normal person for the first time. Don't be afraid to get real help.

JP talked briefly about slow exposure therapy, I think it was on first Jocko Podcast if I'm not mistaken. Basically you do it gradually each new cycle increasing it's intensity.

Don't masturbate, exercise and do some sort of a martial art like Boxing.

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Consider brain chems.

Some are like insulin in that there can be chronic imbalance, w/ the attendant mood & behavior repercussions
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All you can do is put yourself in situations that make you uncomfortable until they don’t anymore. It sucks but there’s no shortcut. I’m still working on coming out of my shell myself. Don’t worry we’ll get there user.

The only cure for social anxiety is learning to accept yourself for who you are and being someone you can be proud of. When you're focused on being the best "you" always; no one seems that intimidating anymore. This is of course meant in the most rational way like do you work hard or are you really good at something.

That’s very interesting user. I still have some degree of social anxiety but I grew out of it just through routine situations of having to deal with people and also experience in general helping to teach me not to give a fuck as much.

Also, I started bartending part time and I would recommend that to anyone who has lingering social anxiety if you can do it.