I know making friends takes time and patience, but I seem to be at a loss as to how to develop acquaintances too. I've always been antisocial, but I never wanted to be. But I just don't know how not to be. But it's not my career that worries me the most. I sense my emotional well-being deteriorating every time I feel myself lost around others.
Millions suffer from shyness, even though as a concept, it is difficult to define.
It seems to be a form of social anxiety, where a person may experience a range of feelings from mild anxiety in the presence of others to a pronounced anxiety disorder. For shy people, it is anxiety-producing to have to interact with others at all, and, at the same time, the loneliness of limited relationships is profoundly painful. Shyness relates to one's exaggerated sense of self. Shy individuals are often absorbed in themselves, and constantly focused on how they affect others and how others feel about them. They worry about themselves and become so absorbed in their own discomfort and inadequacies that they cannot focus on or feel toward others.