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what do I do
| How old are you?
| If legally capable, the best way to fix that is literally just to do it. If you live with say, your parents, offer to go fill up the cars with gas, just to get out of the house. Go out and talk, start with controlled situations you can get out of quickly, like small-talk with the store clerk, just a few words back and forth on the weather and leave.
I can say I know where you are, and to be honest still kinda am at. Just Monday I had a phone interview, and for the first half 1/?
| ...of it I was literally shaking. I about felt like I had Parkinson's, just due to the sheer amount of fear I felt.
The main thing is this: You cannot let it control you.
Realize you will feel fear, and do what needs to be done anyway, and getting over this fear is the only way you are going to have a good life ahead of you. After a while, once you've done things and gotten used it, you will likely not be fearful of it anymore.
But you have to make that choice, to get past it. 2/2
| What kind of medication did you take? It took me and my doctor hell lot of time to find one that worked just for me. Think it was Quetiapine. Felt like literal fucking vegetable while taking it, but hey! It did the job well after all - social anxiety is nowhere to be seen now, as well as some other nasty shit. I couldn't even write stuff online before that, not even anonymously.
| Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that you gotta keep trying, keep searching. If one type of medication doesn't work - switch to something else. There is gotta be something that'll work for you. "Overcoming the fear" and all that is nice, but, well, being stabbed with the knife won't feel any less painful simply because you've been stabbed before, right? And it certainly won't be helpful to get yourself stabbed on purpose in hopes of learning how to suppress the pain.
| You can do it, op, one way or another. Just don't give up on yourself just yet. We're rooting for ya!
| There's always a way. There's no point in giving up. Personally I'm struggling heavily as well and to be honest I really fucking want to give up. But I haven't given up so far and it's lead to genuinely good moments in my life and genuinely good things happening. Do I struggle with doing the things that most others do with ease? Yes. Do I feel miserable? Yes. But things do slowly but surely go up, and enduring and pushing through it is the only way to experience success.
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| This isn't another post complaining about how shit life is. I just need some advice on what to do at this point. I am scared of people. I am scared of going outside. I am scared of getting a job and having responsibilities. It's not just that I'm scared though. I simply am unable to function. Pills have not helped me. therapy has not helped me. What is someone like me to do. Kill myself? How do I make it? Can I even?