How to overcome social anxiety disorder

What's the fastest way to overcome social anxiety disorder?

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For information purposes only. Does not constitute clinical advice. Consult your local medical authority for advice. The information in this video was accurate as of the upload date, September 14, 2022.

If you or someone you know needs help immediately, you should take one of the following actions:
- go to your nearest hospital emergency room

[Thinko_Tv]

We suffer more in our imagination than in reality

[JacobSerns]

When you step outside of your comfort zone, two things happen:
1. You experience some degree of fear
2. Your comfort zone enlarges

[ianhayes]

We are scared to talk to people because you feel like they will think we are weird and not hang around with you, so instead of talking to them we say nothing and try to Avoid any social situations witch just makes people think we are weird and that makes them not want to be around us anyways
Social anxiety is a vicious circle

[kingsquared]

“Maintain eye contact” triggered my fight or flight tbh

[sarmadrao]

One thing i dont understand is that i am not always socially anxious, sometimes i am pretty confident and mantain eye contact but othertimes i cannot look the person in the eye

[hanniballecter]

It's too hard to do when whole society is perfectionist, judgemental and mocking.

[__yussra]

nope, social anxiety for me is just walking in the street and feeling hyper activated and aware of each walking person and feeling their glances on me. therefore I start walking faster than normal and I avoid eye contact, which makes me unaware of what’s happening around me. It feels like hallucinations to be honest
I am generally under control when I’m in a slow paced closed environment

[crystal]

I dive into it and then I’m stressed out for the rest of the week, embarrassed, overthinking and with lots of anxiety. I’m so tired and feel beaten down.

[rollno]

Alone because of social anxiety still we fear of being alone

[alanax]

As much as I'd like to step out there and face my fears, it's really not as simple. I remember being in improv theater class for the first time and I never felt so bad in my life, I was constantly sweating and I just wanted to run away and cry. Even doing small tasks gets my heart beating so fast that it hurts

[TheUnknown-xkyn]

I got social anxiety at 14 years old, I always feel like i am not my real self

[Defend]

I have social anxiety and let me tell you guys it's a worse nightmare and so is normal anxiety.

[bepopee]

I have a fear of people thinking I’m weird and rejection but you broke it down now I know what to do. If I’m in a social interaction I’ll just be my weird self and if they don’t like it then oh well. Not everyone will like you, it’s just life.

[angryyoungman]

Suffer for a month for a life time relief

[kpt]

I think social anxiety is a result of self rejection, and pushing yourself to socialize more, only makes it worse. You need to love and accept yourself first, and then it won't matter who else doesn't.

[aishgill]

Bruh i be weirdly shaking around people and thinking they could see it and my mind always thinking that they are judging my everything and looking at me

[sheashells]

Eye contact hacks:
-Sunglasses
-if you're have poor vision: dip your glasses mid nose. Everyone's a blur and blurs are less scary than people

[wkarl]

The problem for me is, I don’t enjoy small talk. It’s painful. It’s a chore to socialize with strangers & I end up not making sense sometimes from trying too hard to socialize

[lee_ashh]

I have panic attacks when going outside but i manage it by not thinking i have it. What i do is just go on the way, try to relax and see what would happen.

[linnhjertberg]

I suffered from social anxiety my whole life and lately I realized how many opportunities I missed because of this. I'm now working on going out of my comfort zone. It's really hard but I want to get rid of social anxiety. Right now it's just ruining my life!