Quote Originally Posted by HaRd_WiReD View Post
to put it bluntly, social anxiety is a state of mind: fear.

Release the fear.

So what if they don't like what you say, fuck it say it anyway if that's how you feel. Don't fight your feelings.

What you say is what you feel, who has the right to tell you how you feel?
Ahh yes I agree with this. If only it was that simple though. Fear's more like a prison than a simple feeling. All the rationalizing and logic in the world never helped me with my own fears, the mind's far too complex for that. What does seem to work is simply looking inward, watching yourself in action. Only an ongoing process of creative self-understanding will result in a jailbreak from fear. Some people meditate, some people get chemical assistance, some people have methods of their own. The method doesn't matter as long as it gets you there.