Alright, here's my background. I've had social anxiety since around 11, I had my first panic attack related to it at 13, and 13 was also pretty much the last time I had friends over until I was 19. At 19 I started with bipolar disorder, I went manic and met a girl and met her friends and made a lot of friends. I went depressed and lost all of them. Since then I've been all over the place, generally making friends and having dates in manias, and losing friends and isolating myself in depressions.
I've also lived on my own for a few years since then, and in doing so I gained the confidence to take care of daily needs without much anxiety. This may have been the worst thing to do. Now I've got the problem that I don't need to correct my shyness any more to live. So I don't have the motivation to correct it still more to live a happy life. I want to be able to make friends and enter relationships and be more extroverted. I don't know how to make the leap, and failure frightens me.
So I registered here, but I don't see what that's going to fix.
What do I do?
I've also lived on my own for a few years since then, and in doing so I gained the confidence to take care of daily needs without much anxiety. This may have been the worst thing to do. Now I've got the problem that I don't need to correct my shyness any more to live. So I don't have the motivation to correct it still more to live a happy life. I want to be able to make friends and enter relationships and be more extroverted. I don't know how to make the leap, and failure frightens me.
So I registered here, but I don't see what that's going to fix.
What do I do?
