dealing with social anxiety in college?

I have social anxiety and I’m transferring to a university in the fall. I’ve been attending a community college and I usually feel more comfortable in small classes that have like 15 students and I’ve felt really uncomfortable in the classes with like 30 students. The size of my classes at the university are going to have at least 40 students and my chemistry class is going to have 80 people. I’m freaking out over this. Does anyone have any advice on how to not freak out over being in huge classes?

Ok..

What is social phobia?

I don’t care about the definition, and you shouldn’t either – you have it, you know you have it, you suffer it every day, so it’s real enough without the need of a fancy technical definition.

No, what I mean is, what’s the exact nature of the disease?

I thought a lot about it, and came to this simple conclusion : you are wrong.

You can’t measure social phobia. They can’t detect social phobia in a blood test. Why? Because it’s a problem that only exists inside your head. That’s actually very good news! There’s nothing seriously wrong with you, you just have an imaginary problem, and once you realize it you’ll be on your way to a cure.

No matter what’s the belief that causes your social phobia, it’s most likely a wrong belief.

Where did this belief come from? Maybe from a bad experience when you were a kid or a teen. It was definitely my case.

Now ask yourself – are you still listening to the naive, immature reaction of that kid? You’ve grown up! Now you have a better understanding about how the world works, you realize what mortified you as a kid was probably very inane. So why do you allow these petty problems be in control of your life today?

Realize you’re wrong. When you are surrounded by people, most of them aren’t looking at you. Of the few that are, most aren’t judging you anyway. They aren’t thinking you look or act stupid. Most likely they don’t even notice you.

Once you internalize these key concepts, getting rid of your social anxiety without the need of an expensive or long treatment will be way easier.

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