>Be the shy dude in the group >Go to party >get drunk

I know that feel OP. My parents know about this too and so always try to get me to drink with them when they are having a party. They like it when I talk to other party goers.

>>38007024
>>38007076
I'll make this 3. Try not to become alcoholics, brothers.

don't be surprised by this

GABA receptor agonists (alcohol, benzodiazepines, GHB/GBL/1,4-BD etc etc) are well known for killing anxiety, especially social anxiety, but the effect only lasts as long as the drug is in your bloodstream and they are all incredibly physically addictive and potentially fatal in combination with one another

many robots get bulldozed by the benzo trap because when you start taking them it really seems like you've found a magic bullet. fucking sad really.

>>38007024
Please leave this website. I think you're looking for Tumblr. That's where 15 year old girls who like to make up stories go.

>>38007024
So just drink all the time then, dumbass

>>38007024
Iktf all too well. Maybe speak a few sentences in the hours that I hang out with my friends. Always the third wheel. When I get drunk though, that completely changes. Friends try to get me to go out drinking pretty often because they know what the outcome will be. Unfortunately for me, the last few times I went out drinking I woke up the next day with horrible hangovers. Because of that, I rarely ever drink, so I rarely ever get my friends to really enjoy my company.

>>38007076
>>38007100

I wish I could be this way all the time. How old are you guys and have you progressed in anyway to killing your social anxiety?

>>38007119
What am I making up exactly?

This is an original comment of course

>>38007183
23. No it has only gotten worse. I drink alone these days.

>>38007183
I'm 25, and I'm progressing quite a bit, but that's mainly due to my girlfriend-thing.

The one piece of advice I could give you is to keep in mind that everyone, and I do mean everyone, is suffering relatively bad. Try not to actively seek out happiness too much - instead, take on responsibilities. They're self-evidently meaningful and you'll feel it if you really want to.

>>38007024
if u ever want to know WHY you're shy, take adderall.

alcohol is the sloppiest over-the-counter drug for mental illness, u dumb fuck

Is anybody else the opposite?

The few social gatherings I've been to, where alcohol is being served, the alcohol makes the loud and outgoing people even more loud and outgoing. Which makes me even more intimidated. Drinking actually makes me quieter and more withdrawn. I end up isolated drinking beer and trying not to draw attention and wishing it was over.

>go to Europe for school trip
>drink
>feel myself losing anxious habits
>feel confident
>things I say are a lot sharper and more charismatic
>tfw I can feel the alcohol fading and I can myself slipping into my original self
>tfw it feels like the world I built is crumbling around me
>tfw needed alcohol to flirt
>tfw can't rely on alcohol anymore
>tfw want a sincere relationship
>tfw can't build that on alcohol

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>>38007024
>going to parties
>hanging with nomalfags
get out

>>38007483
This was me too. I became significantly better at speaking fluently and more charismatically.
I'd think that alcohol makes you more stupid and it does for the most part but my speaking improved. It's almost like I usually have a buffer when I talk and when I drink it goes away.

I'm not saying I've cured mine but I can help if you're interested. I've drastically reduced mine.

usually it comes down to how disciplined you're willing to be. A lot of times I give out advice here and people clearly aren't willing to commit. these things won't be a magic pill like benzos are but they are a much more sustainable option

>take methylcobalamin b12
>magnesium, zinc, vitamin c
>make a turmeric tea/ soup with a tablespoon of turmeric and drink everyday. proven to work as well as prozac
>reduce porn use
>get at least some exercise every day even if it's just 30 mins of walking
>do intermittent fasting. your body and brain heal while fasting
>read. developing focus and vocab can be great for social anxiety. help you become more comfortable in your own brain
>ask yourself who you really are. this is important. Getting drunk and socializing is not the meaning of life. You seriously have to remember this because I'm sure you're trying way too hard to fit in with the types of people who are natural party animals. Remind yourself that it's fine to not be like that.

in this day and age most people won't be willing to commit to this due to wanting a quick fix. there is none. it's hard but that's the way it goes. You have to develop a solid foundation with hard work. forget about what this ADD generation tells you you should be

>>38007658
all that nervous energy that I had which impeded my mind was removed by simply slowing you down. It's like, when I was a child, I was bad at baseball because I thought about it too much and couldn't turn my brain off. Alcohol is a drink that does just that. It's no surprise it's so popular.

>>38007024
Alcohol is a wonderful drug until it gets a grip of you.
>Be me
>Develop anxiety at 15 years old
>Gets worse over the years effecting relationships with friends and family.
>Only hang out with friends when drinking because i'm not a spurge when drunk
>Feels amazing no anxiety when drunk self confidence goes through the roof
>Sometime around the age of 17
>Start to use Alcohol daily
>Feels amazing being able to leave the house with no anxiety and being able to do things
>A few shots of spirits or a few cans of larger turn into a bottle or a entire crate
>Drink like this daily
>Become extremely depressed
>The thing that helped me live a normal life is now destroying me
>Start getting pains in sides
>Go to doctors
>Turns out I'm a Alcoholic that have damaged liver enzymes associated with liver disease
>Have to stop drinking or i will die
>Extreme withdrawals so bad i attempted suicide twice.
>Be Alcoholic at 20 years old
>Mfw 20 year old with liver damage who attempted suicide twice thanks to alcohol.

>>38007670
>reduce porn use
May as well ask me to start breathing methane instead of oxygen.

Alcohol fucking sucks, just smoke weed

>inb4 DUDE WEED LMAO

>>38007426
Yeah but where do you even get that? You'd need connections.

Honestly, anyone who can get their hands on drugs simply can't be robots because they've clearly got good social connections.

>>38007119
This is the most realistic greentext i have seen today
what the fuck fo you think is real?
incest greentexts?,""""""fembot""""""" threads
back to /r/incels you faggot

>>38007794
ok. so you don't have any intention of getting better.

This society is sick. Everyone is a fucking empty shell who fills themselves up with porn and drugs and then wonder why they have social anxiety.

You need to examine why you have social anxiety not the next quick fix. There's more a play here than a simple chemical problem in the brain the psychiatrists want you to believe.

I used to go out drinking every weekend and have a group of "friends" yet still had massive social anxiety. The way I improved it drastically was to step back from that world and focus on self discovery and self improvement.
it takes hard work. Having any semblance of a genuinely good and fulfilling life does. Nobody seems to be teaching that. and I don't mean getting good grades etc

>>38007024
Consider that the people around you were probably also drunk, so you would have appeared more charming to them and drunks always say how much they love people.

>>38008008
Only half of my friends (6-8 maybe) drank at the houseparty but nice theory though.

>>38008070
being a low inhibition idiot isn't what you strive to be

>>38007670
I'm interested, anon, where did you learn about this? Seems like you know a lot about it

I've been able to cut back on porn a lot through restricting my phone, but I haven't seen significant results yet. Looking for other ways to get around this before I go back to college

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>>38007766
Great story man.

>>38007107
>benzo

Xanax works way too well for anxiety

>>38008853
just experimentation over the course of my life. had social anxiety for about 10 years now and at one point couldn't leave the house without full blown panic attacks

I still have social anxiety but it's drastically reduced. It's definitely relative though. OP might not even have what I consider social anxiety and might just be shy.
I have a hard time doing things like walking while being observed and can't write in front of people due to my hands shaking so much.

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I am slowly becoming an alcoholic because of this exact feel desu
>Tfw you finally have friends because you all get drunk every day

>>38008103
Sounds like being a high inhibition idiot isn't going any better for him.

>>38007024
This is literally me

I can barely keep a normal conversation going for 2 minutes, and cry myself to sleep every night. but once I start drinking im a total normie