The Extremely Strange Way I Finally Overcame Severe Social Anxiety
All I could think was: “I can’t breathe.” That humiliating moment marked the start of a decade of being bullied, taunted, jeered at, and pushed aside. The same suffocation would seep into my mind, staining every social interaction. Whenever I met someone new, I bounced between “will they like me?”, “they don’t like me” and “no one will ever like me.” And when I got a scholarship to study in Canada, my anxiety hit an all-time high....