Extreme shyness or something else?

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I feel embarressed about asking this but, entering high school I couldn't deal with the big change and was so scared. Walking in the hallway was made me nervous and I tend to look at the wall, because I felt like everyone was looking at me and talking about me when I walked pass them. I don't have any friends and it's making me sad. I only talk when I have something to say and when someone talks to me first but it's usually about things I like. Having a normal conversation is almost impossible and logical thinking is also very difficult. I only go out of the house only when there is a purpose (ex. buy food, fill car with fuel, etc.) Anyone else feel the same way?

 

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Yeah, I can relate to you. Especially with the conversation thing. I literally cannot hold a conversation. It's very depressing and not going to help in life, I assume. Friends are hard to make and keep. All that said, I don't think I ever want to be an extremely outgoing person. Being shy is part of who I am and I have kind of learned to deal with it. Of course I wish it wasn't so severe, but I'm trying to get "better". as far as not having friends, I think that as long as there is one person in your life you can count on, then...yeah that's all I have, besides the four members of my family (one of which is a dog )
leaving the house is sometimes stressful, but I just keep in mind that people are not paying attention to me. They have their own problems and lives, and I'm just a person passing them in the street. They're actually NOT all staring at me! that usually calms me down.
I'm sorry if that was confusing and/or irrelevant to what you were asking D: I tried my best!
Hang in there

 

[Memory]

I can relate. I always look at the ground when I walk, or deliberately look one way away from everyone because I hate eye contact and I come up with all these paranoid reasons why people are looking at me the way they do. And I don't really have any friends.

I can only talk when someone else initiates the conversation, and even then I'm pretty lame. It's not that I don't have anything to say, it's that I'm too scared to say it. Also, if I'm with more than one person then unless the person directly talks to me or asks me something, and even then sometimes I don't talk, I don't say anything.

I only go out when I need to, although this also includes just going for a walk because I really want to. Since I'm at university, I have to be out more because of food shopping and stuff.

Anyway, I think if you try to not think about everyone watching you and judging you, and think 'I'm just another person out and about, minding my own business' or something then you might find it more comfortable going out and walking by people.