The treatment for social anxiety is seeing a psychologist.But for me, even talking to a psychologist is absolutely traumatising. The entire appointment I don't trust them, I'm panicked, I'm hyperaware of how I'm 'performing' socially. All these negative thoughts and immense stress spirals so much that, after the session ends, I compulsively drink myself to a stupor or harm myself to make the torture stop.The very thing that's meant to 'help' triggers me that much.The only other option is medication, but I've already tried 15 and none helped. Anti depressants being approved for social anxiety is just another big pharma lie to increase profits. Apart from maybe MAO Inhibitors, but even they didn't even end up working for me.I'm starting to just give up and accept that my fate is being a neet who can't leave the house and has never been able to feel human connection. It runs in my family and they all ended up being social recluses with no friends, dying alone. I was born like this and I'll die like this.
>>34549152There are therapists who will work with you by phone or screen
>>34549169Phone, video call, in person, I've tried them all and it's all the same to me. It's the act of human communication that's terror inducing.
>>34549152There are more options than just therapy and medication. You can read books on the subject and treat yourself. You can meditate daily on all of the reasons why you shouldn't be anxious. You can slow and gradually build up your tolerance by exposing yourself to situations that are just on the fringe of acceptable for you.If you do choose the book route, stick with ancients like Seneca and Epictetus. They knew what they were talking about, much more so than modern quacks.
>>34549189I won't recommend AI therapists, but maybe talking to an AI will reduce your phobia about talking to humans
Get dog ass fucking tired. Run/walk your fat ass from your house to the psychologists office. When you are tired as fucking shit your brain will be way less exciteable and you won't freak out so much. This is exactly how we fix anxiety issues in dogs. It will work on you just as well as it works on them. Also lets be real, psychologists are mostly retarded faggots. You can read a book on CBT or talk to Grok about it and youll know everything they are going to tell you anyway. You actually have to do the work to fix the anxiety problem. And drugs also can help you but typically anything that does help is addictive and shows diminishing returns over time. So you need to use that stuff strategically.
>>34549152If alcohol is a problem, go to rehab. Quit the medication if you can, become a neet and develop yourself spiritually at home where it is hopefully stable and safe. Eat healthy. Read Plato if you haven't. journal several times a week.
>>34549152Consume between 2gr-4gr of dried mushrooms (psilocybine cubensis) and your depression/social anxiety will be cured FOREVER. But you'll die in the process, and there is no turning back after this. It's a leap of faith, anon.
You have to fight your way out of this with anything you got because psychiatry is trash and won't help you, or it qould have helped you already and you certainly wouldn't go home drinkging or self harming. I can't even read or hear that anymore, psychiatry is b-u-l-l-s-h-i-t people. You're not alone in this misery, find friends that help and understand you and will be your "therapists"? Best of luck for you to feel better soon or find a solution!
>>34552780Like why do think there are so many suicide threads on /adv/? Because therapy is working?
