LonelyGirl
Well-known member
I feel like I've hit a brick wall with this whole overcoming social anxiety thing. I'm desperate to make a friend, but it just seems impossible.
I've been putting myself in social situations to try and meet people and become friends with them. I'm at uni studying a subject I love, I'm in the university dance club, I have group music lessons outside of uni and recently I joined Facebook to see if I could make friends with old acquaintances I'd lost touch with.
I am surrounded by good, kind, like-minded people who I have a lot in common with and I still can't make friends. My problem is that I just can't talk to these people. Whenever I have the chance to speak, my mind goes blank. I say hello to them, I answer any questions they ask, but I can't make conversation. I know what to say before I see them and I know what I should have said after. If I do manage to think of something to say I usually don't say it because I think they don't want me to talk to them or I think I'll sound stupid.
Any ideas on how to get past this?
I've been putting myself in social situations to try and meet people and become friends with them. I'm at uni studying a subject I love, I'm in the university dance club, I have group music lessons outside of uni and recently I joined Facebook to see if I could make friends with old acquaintances I'd lost touch with.
I am surrounded by good, kind, like-minded people who I have a lot in common with and I still can't make friends. My problem is that I just can't talk to these people. Whenever I have the chance to speak, my mind goes blank. I say hello to them, I answer any questions they ask, but I can't make conversation. I know what to say before I see them and I know what I should have said after. If I do manage to think of something to say I usually don't say it because I think they don't want me to talk to them or I think I'll sound stupid.
Any ideas on how to get past this?