Were you able to get over your social anxiety?

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I forced myself into situations I knew I got anxious over...examples: large groups discussions and public speaking, I still get anxious sometimes but I’m way better than i used

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I haven't completely gotten over it but it has gotten much much easier/less severe. 
Partly with medication (I'm on propranolol which lowers your heart rate. It doesn't stop you from feeling anxious but it does make it almost physically impossible to have a panic attack and it stops the physical symptoms of anxiety like red face, shakiness, sweating) 
But mostly it's been from just forcing myself to do things that make me anxious. I will usually cry the ENTIRE time, and people look at me like I'm crazy, but what needs to be done gets done, and that's the most important thing. 
Phone calls are my biggest anxiety - and I'll just tell myself "you have to fucking do it. Just go. Get it over with". I used to be so bad that I couldn't even leave my house without a panic attack. I was a shut in for almost 2 years - couldn't even go get the mail. And I did the same thing with telling myself "just go." If I must, I'll smoke weed first to take the edge off. But I try to get it done without that first. 
I actually answered my phone to an unknown number earlier today. It's a miracle 😂 and I then rewarded myself with pizza and bread sticks. 
Same with going out of the house to appointments or something "if you go, you can get ice cream on the way back"

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Well, i wasn’t exactly able to get over it. However i found ways to control and to cope with it. In 10th grade I couldn’t even walk to a class or sit in a class or talk to my BEST friend because my anxiety was so bad. It was just the people around me, I thought they were laughing at me. I would get to nervous, my face would turn red, and i would have a twitch when i started talking ..literally. Sometimes it felt like i was in a dream because my adrenline would be pumping and i’d keep adding stress on myself. It got better as i realized, these people are just like us. Nobody is any better than the other and we all have different purposes. After months and months of telling myself that, i was able to manipulate and control my anxiety. I still get a lump in my throat when i’m with people i don’t know or involved with a huge crowd. Negativity will not help and i learned that the hard way. It’s so hard but be more optimisitic, challenge yourself. I promise it gets easier to control.

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Making it a goal to get better at it... following through with making plans regardless of if I was anxious. (I would take a bunch of passionflower, Bach rescue remedy and calm magnesium before hand) also meditation and self healing has all helped me get over my social anxiety... I still have it occasionally but it’s NOTHING like it used to be!

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Force yourself into situations, for example talk to the cashier instead of someone doing it for you! For my the thing that absolutely helped the most was working with the public! You get fairly used to it!

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moved out of home

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