How do I get people in my family to understand me??
I’ve been constantly telling my parents that I possibly have social anxiety. They just won’t believe me at all, or if anyone else does, they don’t take it seriously at all. I’ve been trying to reach out for a diagnosis or some sort of help but I just cannot do it alone, however they refuse to help me at all because I “need to be independent.” I don’t understand how they think I can just ask for help from a doctor when I can’t have normal interactions and even start shaking during conversations
Everyone in my family just refuses to believe that social anxiety is an actual thing, they tell me that I need to just “get over it” and it will “get better if you just try”, but I HAVE been trying for the past 2 years and NOTHING is getting better. In fact, it’s getting much worse the harder that I try