I tackled the social anxiety at its root and it worked well back then and still does 40+ years later. Social anxiety is faulty thinking that got solidified along the way into your perception of reality. Social anxiety, when bared looks like this: "I don't look good enough, I say stupid things, I'm stupid, I'm awkward, I'm unworthy, I'm different from everyone else for whom it is easy," and on and on with more layers of unhealthy crap than a billionaire's wedding cake. Tackle the root--it's not as hard as you may imagine. You don't need a drug, you don't need plastic surgery, you don't need money , you don't need to fit into anything other than your own clothes. Be yourself and like yourself. Enjoy who you are and others will too. If I sound like an old person its because I am.
But let me ask you, did addressing the "root of your problem" involve only talking to a therapist, or did it involve addressing some kind of neurological cause in the brain??
Cause with my anxiety I've talked it to death with therapists and it does no good.
I have Nonverbal Learning Disability and Generalized Anxiety Disorder and believe that my anxiety has a neurological cause like faulty nerve firing or the wrong brain waves flowing or too much serotonin or dopamine.
When that is the issue no amount of a nice therapist telling you "you are great just the way you are!!" will work.
I would get worried about how much eye contact I was or wasn't making and it would have an OCD component when I'd have a panic attack.
For these kinds of issues I don't believe talk therapy is effective and in the past few years I've lost faith in it.
I think when you have a neurological component to your anxiety you need either a drug and/or things like neurofeedback, biofeedback, meditation, hypnosis, auto hypnosis, yoga, maybe even experimental techniques like use of isolation tanks, and also good old exercise.
Things that will ACTUALLY change your brain waves and/or your brain chemistry and not just trying to rationalize why you worry about something that is supposedly silly.
No amount of being told I don't have a reason to worry will help me.
Taking Klonopin
immediately made my worrying lessen but of course I realize I am just masking a problem which would still be there without the meds BUT I think if I could use neurofeedback it might really help.
Unfortunately neurofeedback is quite expensive but if or when I can afford it I am going to try.