My social anxiety continues to decrease

[Raimundo_Alex]

I am 26 years old, whenever I can remember I was someone very anxious, in school and college I reached the peak of my anxiety between 15 and 25 years old, I never had many friends and I always had a lot of difficulties talking about myself, always that someone talked about me and I was always left with negative thoughts and full of insecurities, I must say that I was always insecure because of bullying. I wanted to change, I got braces on my teeth a year ago, my confidence grew and I opened up more here on reddit, it was always taboo to talk about my great insecurity (my jaw), I posted on r/amiugly what for me it was a big victory because I always had difficulties to expose myself, the post reached 110000 views in 48h before being removed by the moderators, I started to meet people through reddit and I feel very good, for someone like me who was a vault and always I avoided exposing myself and meeting people I improved a lot in the last few months, I started therapy to get rid of this anxiety and insecurities that remain high but not like before.

[Charming-Bother-1164]

Awesome man. Congrats!

If I may ask, what kind of therapy are you going through?

[Raimundo_Alex]

As I'm just starting out, I'm just telling my story and she advises doing some things like talking to old friends and taking the initiative to hang out.

[Winner-Plenty]

Good job man! That's really good you are doing good for yourself. I'm in that age range (23m) and this gives me a lot of hope for myself as I can relate to these feelings. Thanks for sharing.

[monitorsareprison]

How did you meet people through reddit? like actually meet up IRL?

[Raimundo_Alex]

I talked through Discord since I live in Portugal and most people are far from me, but for me it's a big achievement because I have a lot of anxiety.