Advice dealing with the Social Anxiety Catch 22?
So I get way too much anxiety mostly around people, it's making it even harder to look for a job and make friends and such. So how do I ask for help when my problem is with reaching out to people?
I also don't have a GP since I moved because calling Doctor offices to ask if they're accepting patients is a major undertaking, and I think there's still a shortage in Ontario.
After a few weeks of working up to it I managed to go to a walk-in clinic and they gave me Wellbutrin, he told me it would take 1-2 weeks to adjust, and after 3 weeks of being tired, annoyed, and in a generally pissy mood it's not for me, especially when my period hormones kicked in and made that pissy mood way worse. If I wanted to feel like that I'd have stayed with my abusive ex. But I think it was working somewhat because today it took me about 4 hours to respond to a basic text from my mom who I'm good with and still no. So I still want to try different medication but was wondering better strategies to get there than spend a few more weeks anxiously overthinking everything I'd say and everything he might say and every possible way to answer those until I finally get there.
I'd be willing to try therapy again, but I don't have insurance, and I can't afford to go to a bunch of therapists finding the right one. I tried it briefly before, my overthinking makes it hard. It's no mystery to me trauma from the aforementioned abusive ex is a contributing factor, anxiety wasn't nearly as much of a problem before her.