anxious, and even now, I find the memories of awkward social interactions and immense loneliness painful to look back on. I desperately wish it could have been different, but I have accepted now to a certain extent that this is who I am, and that I’m not alone.Despite still suffering with severe social anxiety, I had been thriving at uni.
I could reinvent myself there.I am now a second-year student at university in Wales. Despite still suffering with severe social anxiety I had been thriving at uni.
It was almost as if I could reinvent myself there; nobody had to know I was the girl who had no friends at Sixth Form and couldn’t even speak in class.Sadly, this came to an end when the UK went into lockdown last March.
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