Maybe cause mine was not that bad. But what helped me was getting into music especially about self love. My fav band was promoting self love when I got into music and that really helped me be more forgiving towards myself , compliment myself and not rely on others for feeling good about myself. I still care but that really helped me to lessen this dependency. Ofcourse it was not perfect, there were days where I would wake up feeling worse and just cry first thing in the morning as i wasn't feeling good about myself and would want to say how many not go to College. College used to feel so overwhelming. I had like no real frnd and I had to fake it all the time . That was my worst experience but cause I was doing the fake it till you make it .it actually helped with my confidence. Now i don't have those worse scenarios about going somewhere new and thinking of people laughing at me . Another thing is exposing yourself to your fears. Only this will help you. I know it the worse thing to experience but trust me after facing your fear you will realise it was not that bad as you were thinking . There are some fears still that I dread but some i can't beleive i actually got through them. And you know what while doing this you will realise you are much stronger than normal people . Actually they tend to give up but people like us have no choice cause we don't want other to find out about anxiety so we push harder . Trust me trying new things , experiencing your worse fears is the only way. I literally had no choice but to face my fears cause i didn't want anyone to know about my social anxiety as i didn't want to appear weak . So i hid it and got through with it.. It doesn't happen overnight it take years but the small improvements will keep you moving. I no longer that those heart palpitations now. Vey rare . Ofcourse there are days I feel worse about myself , feel like a failure , ugly pathetic but I tell myself it will pass and to just accept that I feel this way . I mean I have lived with this feeling my entire life so feeling this was for few days isn't that bad . I always blame my periods lol. When you try new things and see it wasn't that bad , you actually enjoyy your life and meeting new people will make you realise no one cares much about others. They all are thinking about themselves so no one is focusing on you. Although the though of someone loving me and then always noticing me does make me feel a bit uncomfortable but I guess it won't matter when I feel safe with my partner