I used to work as a cashier at a drugstore and I would say I was friends with most of my coworkers. We were primarily women in our early-mid 20’s and also students. With that job I was forced to talk to strangers and make small talk as well as having the opportunity to talk with my coworkers about more serious/interesting things. However, once I quit due to getting a job in my field of work, I’ve become so much more socially anxious. I work from home mostly, and in the 2 days I do go into the office, I don’t talk much with other because I have so much work constantly being thrown at me with short deadlines.
If there’s one thing about me that I know that works, and I have talked about with my therapist is that exposure therapy works for me. However, I am very socially anxious so I never go out to places on my own, and I don’t have many friends anymore. But I would like to make friends and become more social. I am thinking of joining Bumble BFF just to see if that can help me make friends, but I worry about my social skills. I think for the most part they’re okay but idk. Is there any way I can improve my social skills at home or do yall think I would just have to force myself to go out (like exposure therapy).
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As you already said, you had social skills, until you changed your job. So as long as you worked with people.
And that’s how you get them back. Get in touch with a lots of people. Even if it makes you anxious in the beginning. When you went through it your problems are gone 🙂