Is it a good idea to start college with terrible social anxiety?

I really love people and interacting with them, I’ve always been a person who liked to talk and make people laugh, I was always talkative with people I felt comfortable with, even tho i was shy w strangers. But I started developing social anxiety at age 14, and over time it got so bad I had to drop out of school. I remember not leaving the house for months… and I mean this, I spent months waking up and just leaving the room for the kitchen and bathroom. My relatives thought I had depression but I was never really depressed, I was just trapped in crippling anxiety, nothing much.

With the quarantine, oddly enough, I didn’t get worse on the contrary, I found strength to start focusing on myself by doing exercises and improving my appearance, which helped with my confidence and I started to get less anxious in public again.
The problem now is, I’m just able to be in public that’s all, I completely lost that personality I had, and any ability to bond with people or social skills since I don’t have a personality. I spent a lot of time worrying about how I looked as it seemed to be the only way I could be in social circles again and yk leave my room… and not look like a total failure to my family and friends, but like… afterall what’s the point if I’m not the person I used to be, who had lots of things to talk about and was outgoing and funny.

I’m starting college next week, I know the things they say about college, but I’m putting a lot of hope in that maybe it’s a place where I can find myself again, maybe meet people who help me with that, I just don’t want to let this fear ruin yet another opportunity in my life.

(Oh and i’m going to study psychology, ironic I know)