I think I have some type of social anxiety since I've always had trouble befriending people (takes time), but I've not been diagnosed anything. I got to see a psychiatrist when I was starting school around age 6-7, couldn't focus at school bc I was counting objects and stuff in the class room. But it worked out.

Wikey

Question for you guys, since this thread isn't just about mental health: Is it healthy to drink every night?

No man, it's bad for your liver and can give you cancer in 20-30 years.

Wikey

But I think of treating social anxieties in the same way I'd think of treating a phobia. You know, keep forcing yourself into situations which confront your fears, until it is gone. Repetition creates new pathways, breaks the old cycles and habits etc. It does appear to have worked with me, so I can vouch for it, at least in my experience.

That's usually how I go about it, so I might actually have some sort of social phobia instead, since I don't have any problems talking to people once I'm like out and about, that is.

If you're diagnosed for something though, you should definitely take it serious. Trust your doctors, unless it's one of those weird street doctors in Chinatown.

I tend to avoid taking pills or medicine in general though, but mostly just for minor things like headaches, fevers and similar kind of stuff. Not migraines ftr. As for serious conditions, I'm sure it's necessary, which is why there's medicine for it.