>>2197997Reporting in. I've managed to get better in the last few years though.
About three years ago I got to a very high peak of social anxiety where I would literally panic even at the thought of social interaction. After that it's been getting slowly but steadily better. Now I'm even able to approach strangers more or less easily, but I still don't know how to have a proper conversation so it's not really useful.
I guess you can never get rid of this curse.