don't take this personal but social anxiety is a meme. i had it and got rid of it not with medication but by the simple act of giving absolutely zero fucks what anyone else thinks of me. it's similar to that stage fright trick where you're supposed to imagine the crowd is naked, but i just imagine literally everyone is mentally retarded. in most cases i'm probably correct. i don't think i'm the smartest person in a given room but the average person with average iq (which means most people you interact with) are basically fucking retarded. unironically try to realize how retarded the average person you interact with really is, especially the type of person that would genuinely make fun of you in private once you're gone for being a little autistic. their opinion of you couldn't matter less. they will never matter.  at the end of the day social anxiety is a self esteem problem. why do chads not suffer from social anxiety? because they think very highly of themselves. if you don't have looks, you need to have something else going for you. i know it's hard to overcome in todays society where your social fuck ups could be immortalized on the internet. but medication isn't the answer.  by the way a bit of anxiety is normal in our society, i don't think it's worth taking medication for it unless it becomes crippling to the point where it interferes with your daily life or evolves into full blown panic attacks. ssris dull the negative emotions, but these are sometimes helpful to the human body. this is purely advice from a random anon on the internet, take it or leave it, you know yourself better than anyone else. just know that ssris aren't good for you in the long term so you should do everything you can to eventually not need them. i don't know how long you've been on them and what your dosage is but just know that doctors hand these pills out like candy and unfortunately they do not have your best interest in mind.
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