conquer my social anxiety

Because when I was a child, people did cruel, inhuman, horrible things to me. Now I’m the most freaked out person around new people. I face them, but deep down I wanna run. I don’t have much self confidence, so I gotta work on that.

I have had social anxiety for a long time. However I really didn’t know much about it or that I had it until more recently. Now that I know what it is I can deal with it better. I’m trying to make more friends and get to know people but it’s hard because sometimes I talk a lot and sometimes I’m more quiet, but once I get to know someone I like I usually don’t shut up. But I need to keep on fighting this.