Stay the f%#* away from anything to do with 'mental health' there pre orchestrated agenda will do you far more harm than good

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Can you clarify what you mean exactly?..
Are you saying if you feel you need some help in your mental health you should stay clear of the professionals?

I didn't say it ONLY has to do with low self-esteem.
I didn't go into all the different reasons why people have anxiety issues and the main issue is from within... depression, chemical imbalance, physical damage, etc...

I know everybody is different.
Most commonly (the people in my experience) have some type of issue with themselves and how they view others when they have anxiety over social interactions.

A 'panic attack' doesn't automatically mean someone has 'social' anxiety.
Social anxiety is when someone feels out of place or unable to relate to the others around them. Social anxiety doesn't mean you have panic attacks when you get around people but it can manifest that way for some.

Feeling uncomfortable in crowds is also a type of social anxiety. School, work and even sometimes family has social dynamics that build social anxiety.

Anxiety is a dis-ease of inner harmony.
This thread is about that dis-ease of inner harmony when dealing with social dynamics (other people).
Everybody has periods of anxiety.
Not everyone allows that anxiety to rule their inner harmony.
Some people don't know how to stop it, others couldn't even if they tried.

What I have experienced is when someone gains inner harmony and emotional balance, they tend to have less social anxiety. They tend to have healthy self-esteem. They tend to be in command of themselves, think rationally and are less prone to needing acceptance of others to feel whole.

Can you clarify what you mean exactly, a professional what?

If you mean neo kraepelinian, if your answer is yes, then my answer is yes,.

Does that clarify things for you?

I had it bad when I was a young kid; getting away from the backwards azz hillbilly town I was in helped a lot (ironically the same one I now live in).
Between the change of place and people and forcing myself I became the charming charismatic man I am now and have been as an adult ;-)
Personally I never had any "professional help".
I'm excluding a lot of details of course but OP, you can do it!

That would be pretty interesting becoming friends with someone for the sole purpose of facing social fears.

I read somewhere that people in certain blood groups should best work from home and I'm in that group. It's never comfortable being far from my abode, when living in the city.

While working for the government, I worked on the streets often but now I notice my blood pressure rises when I'm in the streets.

When driving in Lagos, it's like the streets are hostile so when you finally get home you let out a sigh of relief and say a prayer of thanksgiving to God for bringing you back safely.

Riding a motorbike makes you feel much freer because you'll be able to escape from traffic holdups easily.

In close company, one can easily become the life of the party (when I used to party).

For me, this is not a self esteem issue but one of security.

I only get social anxiety if an interaction doesn't go the way I expected.

I just have anxiety there isn't anything social about it geesh

Soooo funny!!

...any local women want to "help me get over my social anxiety?"

Im very shy. Not social at all. Im able to communicate more online than in person.

Why is it too late for you, your still here I know in the UK we have mind who do a lot or social cafes and things like that.

I will say one thing just think about this next time you are around people.

Everyone is too busy in their own heads to give a **** that your there so don't worry about it they will all be too caught up in their phones or in their own heads to even notice you so walk around be happy and smile.

I would suggest extreme wariness in seeking mental health professionals. The field has a greater preponderance of charlatans than most fields of consequence. A lot of them went into the field to try to figure themselves out.

...any local women want to help me become more outgoing so i can find a girlfriend and get really really serious?

xoxo

A lot of mental health professionals have problems themselves just able to manage it

I have talked to some that say they break down over their clients because in helping them on drugs they're making them flat devoid of life just zombieized and dry... it's causing them to not be reckless but exhausted as hell...

That when they do breakdown they are on the drugs anyway and likewise for the drugs to cause what they should have prevented...

You will see all across the news screen of lawyers taking into account that we should sue the pharmaceutical companies because it caused adverse side effects

These people are here to help you and they will keep taking you cause you keep coming back to them with a problem... through private insurance or Medicaid whatever you use to pay for them.

If you really want to help yourself? Start by learning to relax stressful situations we're all in control of our own fears and phobias... that the boogey man does exist at night yet at the same time he is a myth... A clockless hermit the worlds a dangerous place sure but if we keep tied to the screen... "o no someone did something stupid shame shame shame" you are likely to never engage with actual people. That babies do not start off bad till someone bullies or upsets them and nobody is ever truly evil just sick...

A lot of mental health professionals have problems themselves just able to manage it

I have talked to some that say they break down over their clients because in helping them on drugs they're making them flat devoid of life just zombieized and dry... it's causing them to not be reckless but exhausted as hell...

That when they do breakdown they are on the drugs anyway and likewise for the drugs to cause what they should have prevented...

You will see all across the news screen of lawyers taking into account that we should sue the pharmaceutical companies because it caused adverse side effects

These people are here to help you and they will keep taking you cause you keep coming back to them with a problem... through private insurance or Medicaid whatever you use to pay for them.

If you really want to help yourself? Start by learning to relax stressful situations we're all in control of our own fears and phobias... that the boogey man does exist at night yet at the same time he is a myth... A clockless hermit the worlds a dangerous place sure but if we keep tied to the screen... "o no someone did something stupid shame shame shame" you are likely to never engage with actual people. That babies do not start off bad till someone bullies or upsets them and nobody is ever truly evil just sick...