6 Tips To Overcome Social Anxiety (Affects Our Everyday Life) 

A lot of you asked us to make a video on overcoming social anxiety. Here it is!! Also what do you think about this animation? New animator worked hard on this video!

social anxiety really is something people underestimate.. people just think you get shy or nervous, and blame you when you don't wanna do certain things or do certain actions, but it's SO much more than just "shyness".

Social anxiety feels like you’re in a movie and everyone has a script-except you

I always have this fear of being judge and noticed by others this thing always holds me from doing a lot of things in life

Definitely relevant. Not being around people for over a year, I worry about socializing again 🥴

Her voice.. the animation... I feel so comfortable with it ...

🌈In case u are in a hurry, here's what they go over but try watching the entire thing for more specific details!✨ 1. Create awareness 0:55 2. Engage in relaxation techniques 1:31 3. Try Yoga 2:13 4. Set goals 2:44 5. Make something 3:18 6. Therapy 3:56 🌈If ur reading this, I hope u overcome social anxiety and I know u will!! It's ok as I have mild social anxiety but we are all in this together and ur not alone!!

Here’s something that helps me since I’m just bad at talking to people: I sometimes just tell whoever I’m talking to that I’m bad at conversation and I get stressed about social stuff or something. It makes me feel better because then I know that the person knows I’m not good at talking and they will understand why I’m quieter and stuff. :D

i never considered myself an introvert even though i feel uncomfortable in social situations. the thing is I actually WANT to engage in being social and stuff. But when i try to i just get nervous and i just go BLANK for no reason. its terrible. thank you so much for making this video!

I hate it when people say "just get out of your comfort zone" First of all when the hell was being alone a comfort zone. I never felt comfortable having social anxiety. Its not easy to overcome it and I just wish some people could just understand. I love how you give us actual advice instead of telling us to get out of your comfort zone. And its not introversion or being shy. Those are totally different things.

i love how this channel takes social anxiety seriously, i feel like it’s usually portrayed as “everyone has it” and parents/adults don’t take it seriously because “it’s all in ur head/just a kid thing” like yeah it is but the fact that i feel like vomiting every morning before school isn’t just something to “get over”

The more you know about how people behave, the less nervous you are with them. One thing I've learned about people, is that they aren't focused on you. They are focused on themselves.

Whenever i'm put in group projects I can't breathe and shake. I hate it I wish I could just be normal

My anxiety : all people is watching you and will laugh if you make any mistake My depression : no one will care about you because you are a failure

WELP, I NEEDED THIS ONE-

From someone who fights social anxiety and other mental conditions for 5 years now thank you for this video.

My social anxiety has gotten even worst, simple things like buying and going outside is so uncomfortable. I'm scared of what my future would be if i keep going this way, their high expectation towards me makes me sick. At this age, i still rely on my mother, i cant do things without her. I just wish to stay at home the whole time and don't attend school😢😭

Whenever i need to do group projects i just can't speak anything and think about anything even when i have many ideas... It's hard for me... This video really helped me

My social anxiety shifted from being scared of people for a whole new reason once the pandemic started. I have a goal to be able to go into public places without a mask once I am vaccinated but that idea scares the hell out of me. In my mind I will be wearing that mask forever. Thanks social anxiety!

i would go to a doctor, but my mom says "its just a phase" "you're just lazy" "its all in your head' YEAH ITS IN MY HEAD ITS A MENTAL ILLNESS

it feels like cameras are always watching you, and everything you do, even typing this out, is making me stressed because what if I spell something wrong or don't make sense. I hate it I always say no to outings with others and find myself getting sick at the thought of the mall or a party. it's so draining, and I hate it, but I hope one day I won't be like that, I'll go outside without thinking about people staring me down. Nobodies probably going to see this, but you're not alone. Do things that make you happy

I literally cannot knock on the doors of my best friends houses because I’m afraid that there siblings or parents will answer the door. Instead I text my friends and ask them to come and open the door for me.

I'm 26 and have finally started to get help about my mental health. My therapist has suggested we try EMDR, as there's a lot of stuff from my past that has heavily impacted my thought patterns etc. I've not had my first EMDR session yet - it's on Tuesday! I'm hoping I can finally start unlocking the future I dream about ❤️

Sometimes I question how I turned like this. I just wanna be able to be myself and not torture myself over little things

I rlly want to get rid my social anxiety and be confident how does these things come so easy to other ppl 😭

thank you!! i had a panic attack after being out in public after a long time in quarantine and was really overwhelmed with the amount of ppl i kept seeing and felt really embarrassed, i appreciate this!!

break out rooms in online class is *hell* for people with social anxiety, i always just say nothing and pretend that my mic doesnt work lol.

Yeah I have social anxiety,being around alot of new people is hard for me. I'm new at my local skydive center,and meeting so many new people makes me nervous. It's been hard for me to get out and make friends,I dont have any currently. Trying to go out and make friends is proving hard for me.

I've had social anxiety all my life, hate it. Afraid to leave my house for anything. I can't even talk or connect with people. I tried going to a few different therapists but I didn't find it helpful, but it was nice to feel like I finally had a friend and someone to talk to.

I feel like I'm judged. And I hunch my back a lot because people look at me I don't like going outside because i think people stare at me. I'm not sure if I'm just over reacting

I’m scared about getting a job because when I try to talk to people my social anxiety is so bad to the point where I’m so awkward and nervous 😅

I tapped on this as soon as I saw it. That probably means I have social anixity and know it

Finding ways to improve myself to be the best I can be in ways that are possible, such as cleanliness/grooming, style, and diet/exercise and not worrying so much about things I have little to no control over helped me to eliminate or decrease my negative reactions to my thoughts about whether I was being judged. You have to do something to get out of the hole you’re in; don’t wait for somebody else to save you. This is the same with any mental health issue. Tell a loved one, see a therapist if you have the money, or if money is an issue, there’s a lot of information online.

I've suffered all my life with SA. Therapy didn't help because I was too afraid to do anything.😔❤️

Social anxiety is a disorder, a phobia (and it comes with some paranoid and psychotic symptoms too) that affects greatly your quality of life, even if you think a certain way, your physical symptoms and the anxiety will be such you'll feel the need to avoid things altogether. Causing a constant struggle between what you truly want and what you eventually do. Procrastination, avoidance are a tendency. Examples are: going out at all, going out with friends, going to meetings or parties, going to the supermarket, going to a restaurant, to school, public speaking (like speeches or participating in class) , taking the bus, going out for a run or the gym, making calls or receiving calls, recording audio messages, and even sometimes texting!! Every single scenery where social interaction occurs (or doesn't, but there is still people present, like walking down the street alone) is a possible triggering situation, even performing in front of your relatives. The dread is very real and it is tiring being bombarded by constant stimulus. Irritable Bowel Syndrome is common in subjects (in my case it is constipation) , muscle spasms/tics, panic attacks, somatic symptoms, allergy. Feelings of frustration, anger, being powerless. Some do masking to get by. However, our levels of anxiety aren't the same everyday, some days we can feel quite relaxed and can chill out. True, our body and mind fears in an unreasonable way, but we actually like making conversation and want to bond with people, which explains why people with social anxiety can be social butterflies too :). People can grow out of some things as they age and learn more, therapy does help a lot, changing your mindset and opening up/letting go helps too, working on your self-steem is a priority as well. My anxiety now isn't as violent as when I was in my teens or childhood, it does subdue. But chronic mental disorders are a lifetime commitment, it is something to bear in mind. So another advice to people would be to surrender (not the same as giving up), surrender to who you are and embrace all your sides. The more you fight against your body, the more struggle you create for yourself. You are hurt, you are bruised, that is a part of you. Let yourself be awkward, let yourself have tics, let yourself act weird, be honest and upfront with your problems, don't be afraid to say you have a certain mental illness, ask for help, let yourself be wrong when answering a question, etc. Don't lie to yourself, only by embracing can you begin to heal. Trust yourself. Eventually you will be able to grow and protect yourself and others. Thanks to the channel for making psychology accesible to everyone and raising awareness on mental health, it's great.

one of the biggest things that helped me escape from anxiety and depression, was praying to God 😊

The perfectionism really does hit close to home... but I didn't know that it had something to do with my social anxiety. I was always the kind of person who just wants things to be perfect and now that I think about it, there were many moments where I was either laughed at, judged, or harshly criticized by friends and family members when I did something, especially if that something is creative. I still deal with this despite going to therapy and I have discussed this with my therapist many times but I am trying to get better at it. Perfectionism to me has gotten to the extent that I end up pushing back or even scrapping projects no matter how far I've gotten in them because they might not be up to my high standards. I guess it's also because I am afraid of being judged in the things I do and I have noticed it slowly seeping into things I do daily such as what outfit to wear, how my hair is like, writing on notepads etc.

I am not diagnosed with social anxiety but I really should consider getting a diagnosis for it, as a lot of these signs I do relate to. Im going to try to conquer whatever I have the best I can. To everyone who does have social anxiety, I wish you every luck trying to overcome it! Lots of love ❤️❤️

I loved the little paimon alarm clock, and wind slime pillow.

i wish i was normal........... i hate social anxiety

OK, thank you so much. Social anxiety has made me scared of other people for years. Literally, I still am very scared of it, but I will try these tips. My heart beats so bad fast. I start crying for some reason. I don’t know why but anyways thanks it’s very, very hard to like be someone with social anxiety, I think social anxiety in my opinion is worse than anxiety just regular anxiety because you literally cannot go into big places like mall and stuff without stressing out about if I bump into someone or I get kidnapped like that stuff, but you don’t think of the bright side which affects peoples moods and they don’t want to go anywherewith me because I hate going places like very big. I got embarrassed at the mall because I was very very, very scared with my social anxiety.

Me at school : Sweating intensely Me at home : I feel comfortable I need to try these :0 😂 I have bad social anxiety ._.

My anxiety has gotten to the point where I've been isolating myself a LOT within the past few years, and covid definitely didn't help. I've been going to therapy for my various mental health needs, but I'm still struggling to come out of my shell and try to make new friends. Thank you for this video 💙

I dunno if that's anxiety but I'm even afraid going to my own parents to talk to them, And even more so to strangers

Whenever i’m in public i get so anxious i feel like i need to throw up and i just start wishing i could fall off the face of the earth and be forgotten

I never ever try or encourage self diagnosing, but multiple times I’ve found myself struggling with the symptoms of social anxiety, even to the point of getting dizzy. 😔 I find myself avoiding many social setting and it really is becoming a problem. Thanks for the tips and good luck to anyone else struggling! 🙂🌱

My father told me that if you have trouble talking to people, try small talk or just talk about the simplest of things that won’t make you over explain and just stumble your words, which is what I do and I was diagnosed with social anxiety(which I thought was me being an introvert), and if it’s hard with you even trying small talk, let other people control the conversation, but not too much to not allow you to share your opinion. Sometimes all people need is a little help in conversations, since not everyone is pro at them or know exactly what to say :D! (Sorry if this is bad explaining, I’m terrible at explaining anything)

As an artist with social anxiety , I love to draw out my emotions to help calm me down . It really works :]

I have also been ill for seven years and I want to go to a psychiatrist who can guide me, but I cannot at all. My family does not accept the idea of ​​me going to a psychiatrist because they see that I am in good condition and do not need any doctor. Also, I live in a society that believes that only the mentally ill or crazy person goes to this. Places I have overcome some of my fears. I have a friend with whom I talk comfortably. My tension decreases when I talk to her. I begin to interact with a small group and they discuss questions, but when everyone listens to me and looks at me, I feel that my body temperature is high and I become nervous and shorten my words. I try hard to make eye contact, but I cannot. I cannot. I make eye contact for five seconds. Even my best friend, I don’t make eye contact with her much. I don’t know what to do or how I will act. I hope you can give me some advice that might benefit me. 💔🙂

I had really bad social anxiety back in the day when I was in high school & even after I got in to med school. Professional assistance along with bursting the bubble of comfort frequently and be prepared to embrace the whatever discomfort that comes along with it was the key to overcome my social anxiety to a point where I don't feel discomfort at the presence of strangers or social encounters anymore. Gotta be proactive about it & "No f***s given" mindset really helps alleviate it too.

I always say, the right people will understand. U don't have 2 explain yourself 2 the right people. If u talk, they will listen and if they care they will be patient with u and do their best 2 try and help u thru your struggles. They will be encouraging and supportive. ❤️🙏🏽

tysm i needed this and to all having troubles, hope things go well for you

Thank u so much for making these videos. Not only are they helping me, but my family and my friends as well!

I feel the nausea part. I just stopped going to school a couple weeks ago cause I couldn’t go without vomiting while I was there. Idk how I’m suppose to live with how I’m feeling lmao

I love this channel! Just had a tough family event today and this video makes me feel so much better! Keep up the amazing content!!!

or everyone suffering from social anxiety, try to give yourself challenges like: going to the supermarket, raise you hand in class, going for a walk. and think about how you should act at that moment. it helped me alot!

Can we all just appreciate how in this channel there Is legit every way to overcome any problems a human can face in life?

Thank you! 😘. I really needed this

I’m afraid of humiliating myself. Once I tried to overcome my social anxiety and do a presentation voluntarily… My hands were shaking uncontrollably the entire time and I wanted to run off stage and cry. I stood there and got through it all, but on the way back to my desk everybody told me how I was shaking so much… Never presenting again.

I really do get social anxiety that's why I prefer staying at my house, I never go Outdoors and what I really hate the most is if there's birthday parties,Gatherings, I always bring my airpods with me so that I can listen to music releasing my Anxiety

I do all of these things to combat anxiety, especially deep breathing.

My parents don’t believe that I’m scared to leave my house and that I’m actually scared of people

I don't remember ever worrying about other people's opinions, at least not to a debilitating degree. It fascinates me, it often amuses me, sometimes it even angers me, but the only person whose reactions really matter in my universe is me. Other people can affect my choices or perceptions, but the final choice is always mine. 17 seconds into this video, and I plan to watch the whole thing as an educational exercise because maybe it will help me understand people.

My parents who know about my social anxiety : Also them: “ *Go talk to your 18th cousin* ”

It's like one of my darkest fear now. I will think about impressions of people about me, how embarrassing I will be, too much. Even in my first online class, I cry infront of my mom and tell about it and she say she will say it to my teacher. It's also causing one of depression to me again. I'm an intovert and ifnj, sometimes, when I meet new people, I will feel very shy and afraid of everyone. Thank you Psych2go! Take care ❤

I probably don’t have it but random fact it takes me a whole year to open up my slightly chaotic side to my school- I think im just super shy without knowing it

I never had social anxiety really. In 2019 i had so much stress from school that both social anxiety and depression decided to come visit. After a year of relaxing, I’m slowly starting to realize that i dont get as anxious and its the absolute best! I wish every and each one of you the same!

I dont know if I have social anxiety,but I really think I do. I'm trying to get up the courage to tell my mom. Thank you for this!

Your voice is smooth enough to relax me lol, you got very lucky!

Social Anxiety and depression are the main reasons my life has been a living hell.Over a decade of trying medication and mental hospital and neither worked that well im just a lost cause at this point. I would rather be dead then live another day on this planet im tired of suffering.

why is this exactly what my therapist tells me. this was so spot on and I feel seen. thank you 😊

Social anxiety can be such a pain. I wouldn’t even wish it on any of my enemies.

The new animator, please know that I LOVE your art style. It's superrrr pretty ❤

I'm tired of feeling this way it sucks

These videos are so nice, I love this channel. It makes you realize that, even though things may bad, you can acknowledge your problems and do something about them

Parabéns Gustavo pela edição deste vídeo e imagino a dedicação de horas por dias… Ficou muito bom, gostei bastante. O estilo dos personagens criados, a forma de animação e a narração interagem sincronizados com o conteúdo, falam a mesma linguagem. Ficou simples, direto, singelo e deixa o espectador grudado para querer ver e saber mais. Além de tudo, acho que deve ter sido muito gratificante para você ser convidado a fazer parte de um projeto desses que ajudarão muitas pessoas a dar o primeiro passo ou a continuarem subindo um degrau de cada vez, nem que seja um por dia. O vídeo vai ajudar muitos a compreender que, na trajetória toda do ser, o mais importante não é o resultado em si e sim o esforço realizado em toda a caminhada. É para esse esforço que se deve olhar.

I have been dealing with this for 3 years now, ill try to do these things and see if they help, thank you!

Thankss, yesterday I went to the movies and I couldn’t even ask for one ticket and I when I did ask I thought abt how I said it the whole night and I was thinking to myself how can I get over my social anxiety 😫

Yeah, I've seen countless therapists for the past 22 years (since I was 12) and have been prescribed countless more medications for my social anxiety (which is so severe, that it has basically mutated into agoraphobia), and noone nor nothing (besides benzodiazepines, which good luck getting that prescribed long term), have ever helped. I won't leave my home for months and months (even long before we started quaranting). I can't work, have and hang out with friends, date (which means no husband and no family of my own). I can’t even go to my mailbox or sit on my porch, and I live out in the country. It’s so bad that I’m going to have to apply for disability and I’m only 34. What’s worse, is that this life is so lonely, it has exaserbated my major depression and caused me to try to commit suicide four times, which got me hospitalized each time. It's pretty bad. So, somehow I doubt yoga and relaxation techniques are going to make a difference for me. But thanks.

I’m still young but I’ve developed social anxiety and I can’t get rid of it even when I try. I feel like everyone around me is judging me and I feel like something’s wrong with me. Like there’s something wrong with my body or the way I look. I can’t get over my social anxiety. I did have one day a few months ago where my social anxiety randomly completely went away but it only lasted for a day and i couldn’t go back to that and I’m not sure why. It completely goes away when I’m with friends too. It’s really annoying no matter how hard I try.

For me it's still a long journey and some of these helps me 1) Realize that there are 7++ billion people on earth and most likely they won't remember something embarrassing you did. 2) Make jokes with yourself. Usually some people would have a conversation but I'm too shy to participate so I ended up answering in my heart and made myself laugh with my jokes 3) Push yourself. This is a hard one but after a lot of practice I get better at talking to new people. 4) Recognize the things around you. What color is the person's shirt? Do they wear glasses? Are they wearing a watch? What color is the room? This makes me feel safe knowing I'm aware where I am and what surrounds me and distract myself from my thoughts.

I had social anxiety from an early age. I was comfortable only with my family and close friends. Whenever I meet new people I get anxiety, I felt uncomfortable with them and many odd thoughts would come in my head regarding how my first impression was, my body language, how I looked, if they liked me, and more........ and then I would kinda freaked out from the inside. As I grew up, I faced worse. Due to a personal trauma, I caught up depression, more type of anxieties and also went through a lot of panic attacks, but at first it was just about sadness and loneliness from a certain situation. Bcoz later on, it became something else, I got mood swings and felt a rollercoaster of negative emotions for no reason!!! It became something that was within me, my own mind, and I don't directly think of something like a past bad situation or event in my life........ I don't know its just like an..... Unexplainable, unspoken sadness. It was so hard for me to stay alive because everyday it was getting worse, I thought a lot about taking me own life and also about ways of how to die!! Like literally... But I never had the guts bcoz I was terrified of feeling pain coz one way or the other I had to feel pain to die...... So I just suffered for several months and felt like I had already dead and I was just wandering like an automated robot or a zombie. I didn't had any interest in anything or any enthusiasm in me..... Although I learned a lot of life lessons and realized many things about other people and myself in that time period, still all I felt was sadness and mental pain till date. At that time, I was also kinda willing to live in a loop of a moment in time forever where I had happiness inside of me bcoz at least it will be better than living though I wasn't alive. But it is not possible so then what could I do, I begged for happiness in my life from I don't know whom. I just begged!!! But no matter how much hope I kept or how much I craved, I begged, no miracle came along, nothing happened like it happens in movies. Nothing!.... Reality isn't kind in real like it seems in movies and it was not my choice to be in that state of mind... It felt like my life would be forever dark, empty, cold, lonely..... After a long awful battle, for some period of time, I finally overcame my mental illness by doing things that I was afraid of, but eventually after some time it comes back again, that hopeless feeling like I was being sucked out from my mind... It's like a never ending war, like battling with the water at the seashore, the waves just come and goes and come and goes by their own... and it's like whatever u do doesn't even matter, it's just so strong and so painful............ I had no one to share it bcoz I thought no one would understand. I told my sister, and I guess she understood for about a 30 percent but it doesn't matter bcoz she forgets it and like everybody else she is more focused on herself than others. So for the time being, I will keep trying to push away every negative feeling that comes in my head. I will keep trying my best to not react to my emotions and to keep calm and keep hope coz the sunshine in my life is yet to come. So I hope that everybody does it too.. don't ignore your problems, face them and try your best to overpower them. Be a conqueror!! U're not alone. Everybody else around you is fighting too...

The most important aspect to me is realizing that you are not that important in other peoples lives and that you must be genuinely interested in other people to overcome social anxiety and become more sociable

Been Struggled with Social Anxiety for a years...Only now that I realised that it's not as bad as I thought.. Just remember to breath and think positive in every way..

Thank you for this. I was always a social person and then suddenly i changed due to people around me hurting me over and over and i just got tired of even letting people in.

Hey Psych2Go. I just really wanted to thank you for these beautiful videos you post for us. It's very, very, very helpful. They're all beautiful and helpful topics, explained shortly and crisply, making it easy to understand. The cute animation style of your channel relaxes viewers in such a way that we feel our problems aren't as huge as we think they are and we can overcome them. All in all, I'm really very grateful to your team for making these beautiful videos. *Thank you* ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you !! I love your channel, keep up the beautiful work🤍🤍

To anyone reading this comment ..may god bless you Don't give up just because things are tough, something beautiful might be waiting for you ❤❤❤🤗🤗🤗

A channel Where all its videos No matter how old it gets You can always rewatch

My anxiety lead to shivering in legs, misleading my words, forgetting everything, naturally pitch gone low , then everything goes wrong 😭😞

From what I’ve learned after I received this diagnosis is there’s room for improvement and this isn’t forever. Mindfulness, focus on the sensations in your body, watch your diet, sleep right, stop masking and free yourself! Print this in your brain that none actually gives a shit except yourself, it’s mostly about self hate from what I’ve learned from social anxiety. Have rendezvous with people who make you feel at ease ( for me it’s older relatives ) and see them regularly. Even if the sensations come up and you feel unease, accept it and just let it slide away. Stay present and use all your senses :) looking at the ground makes you floaty, so try to stay engaged. Feeling anxious isn’t bad so trying to mask it will only end up in terror. BREATHE ! Hope this can be useful for someone :). Transform your thoughts, anxiety= thoughts+ overanalysing / beat yourself up = bodily sensations.

As a person with social anxiety I often feel like dying in public places that's y i pretend to be cool but I'm really ain't .. and I get anxiety thats y i get irritated at others so easily

I needed this

My socialphobia is SOOO BAD OMG. I can't even talk to people online anymore..

Unrelated but i always watch ur vids when I was sleeping/bored cause your voice is really comforting for me!!

When my anxiety gets really bad, I feel as if I become very apathetic temporarily and also tend to become Passive Aggressive. Why does this happen? Afterwards I beat myself up over what I do and say during this time. It happens very often.

Thank you so much💙 I really needed this !!

Thank you I need this I'm only 11 and I have social anxiety

Since I'm going back to school in the fall, the mere thought of interacting with people makes my heart race and my hands sweaty.... I mean, I miss the classroom feeling and "people watching" [observing people through my little bubble], even talking about interests, but I tend to zone out and try to plan the whole conversation before it even happens.

I love psychology because of psych2go! Their videos help me understand more about mental health 💕🥰