i had the same problem for 3 years
hey i had the same problem for 3 years, and it started when i started working for an albanian construction company , where everybody not albanian was treated like shit, i mean like whores, and at that time i was really in need of money so i couldnt quit my job so i had to stay and get treated like shit to, and it eventually leaded me to a self steem problem where i couldnt look at people in the eye no more because i would feel like they could look straigt at what happened to me etc. at that point i was suffering from a specific kind of low self steem, the funny thing is that whenever i looked in to the mirror i didnt see i looser, or a bad person, i just saw me, plain me, no when i tried to look into somebodys eyes i use to fill up with hate because of what happened to me, is kind of that i was hating every single human person on the planet, even knowing that the person that was talking to me didnt had anything to do with anything, they werent guilty for nothing that happened to me, even tough i couldnt feel different, so i guess it is a sort of self defence mechanism because of an traumatic event, or a series of small traumatic events that build up into a monster.
the solution: controlling my mind up again.
yes that was the only solution i found after i tried everything, from glasses. to staring at pictures of people(wich helped a little) now the real solution was when i found out that actually lots of people suffer from this, and that there are paranoid and uncomprehensive people that may not understad that it is not that you dont like them, is that you have a personal problem that doesnt have nothing to do with them, but you have it anyway, so the soulution for me was paying less care about what people think about me and being a thankfull person for the small things in life,from waking up alive, to a coffee etc, another thing very usefull is
DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT YOU WHEN YOURE NOT DOING SOMETHING WRONG!!! and thats what realy helped me, guys whe are human, we make mistakes, so just let it go what ever you made or whatever somebody made to you, life is to learn, and trustme if when you start getting paranoid at people just look at them, they are people just like you, even if they dont know it, they shit like you, eat like you, are wrong like you etc, just be yourself and overcome your fears,i did it, and im just a regular guy, just dont let stupid or inexperienced people ruin your life, remember you will have your age just one in your life, stop loosing years,
and dont forget to be thankfull for what you have,because you have you.