how i got rid of my social anxiety forever i struggled with social anxiety my whole life. i was very sheltered my whole life and i never gained the courage to approach anyone in my lifetime, up until the past 6 months to a year. I never cold approached anybody. I used four things to harness the way I communicate and be able to do things without hesitation. I uploaded videos on social media, and I don't say that because I made it. I did it for myself. Before helping others, I stuttered, I was painfully bad at making videos, and I couldn't get my message across. At a certain point, you will lose the fear of judgement while opening up making any type of content. I learned so many different perspectives in the past 6 months from uploading every single day. I encourage anyone reading to go all in. It's go time. moreover, reading out loud doesn't sound like it would improve social anxiety but it helped me tremendously. whether it's non-fiction or books that try to improve the quality of your life giving you new perspective, it gives you the opportunity to increase the amount of times you speak in a day. speaking is a skill to harness like every other one you practice daily. go ahead, try it and give it a go. recording yourself talk and listening to it back on voice memos helped me and i implemented it 3x a week for 30 minutes to talk and reflect on the way i speak. the way you do anything is how you do everything, so i sharpen the cadence of which i speak at and try to eliminate filler words. proper communication makes you more confidence in the way you can express yourself as a human being subsequently reducing the amount of anxiety because you know you can speak to anyone. in essence, i would embarass myself more. more approaching people, more getting rejected, more having uncomfortable and awkward conversations. it took me my whole life to realize a few bad apples shouldn't discourage me from surface level conversation or to ask people about their days, as simple as it sounds. some people will ignore you, some people will be extremely tuned in. to me, it was the ultimate thing to reduce my social anxiety. we fear the judgement of others and the embarassment because of the person kicking us down in our mind already. explore that underdevelopment in which it is embarassment. to all of you who have read, discipline in private builds CONFIDENCE IN PUBLIC. do the boring work and redefine your belief system to really prosper and get rid of your anxiety. thank you all for watching :) - @journalwithace