Social skills?

[SongsofInnocence]

I'm 23 and I don't feel I have a problem actually meeting people (except strangers) but even when I feel comfortable around strangers I just can't figure out what to say to them! It's as if my mind just goes blank! My social skills are crap...so even if I overcome SA it still doesn't help because of my bad social skills...

How can you improve social skills when you have SA? Not to mention the other problems I have, which I won't get into here...

Also...I read a quote somewhere in a book where a former US general, who had SA, said it felt worse than going to war! I've thought about this and I agree...sometimes I really feel I can sympathize with soldier...because it sure as hell feels like war in my head when I'm out there!

So happy to have my family and house here on the home front...

 

[Ubersonic]

I was just doing some google searches about this today and found an article which gives some advice.

http://psychcentral.com/lib/2006/making-conversation-a-skill-not-an-art/

Getting good at making conversation should give us less reason to fear it.

 

[SongsofInnocence]

Thanks for that Ubersonic.. There were some good pointers in there definitely