Am I Broken?

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So this hard to describe because you will probably need to know me as a person but as people go I have a very dominant personality. This often makes it hard for me to win people over when we first meet but after they have spent some time with me they seem to enjoy being around me. However, coupled with this is what I think is social anxiety, normally with regards to women. For instance I hardly ever speak to women simply cause most of my conversations are some sort of argument which one does not have with a stranger especially one of the opposite sex. Thus the female friends I do have are ones I have met through my friends and only them. So am i broken? If so what course of action is suggested to ‘put the pieces back together’? Ps this is not one of the thousand uses of duck tape

Category: Tags: asked March 29, 2014

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Practice talking to girls online for awhile. After that sets in you can run through what your going to say in person and think about ways you can say things to encourage people instead of arguing. Obviously it's easier said than done, but build up nerve to talk to more people. If it goes bad it goes bad, but u will learn from the experience. You are certainly not broken.
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Social Anxiety is a lot like OCD, there are very serious forms of it that are crippling to someone's life, but everyone has their own at least at some point in their lives. You're only human. If you want to practice breaking your social anxieties, talk to people. Talk to people online, talk to people in real life, heck, talk to yourself into the mirror. Practice talking, practice thinking about what to say, practice saying it in a pleasant tone or manner, and you can do all that under your breath or when you're alone. Social anxiety can be one of the hardest things to break, but when you do, it opens up all the doors.