welcome to another video on Scott's thoughts beating depression and anxiety dealing with mental illness today is my personal story and my personal suggestions on how to beat social anxiety something I had to discover before being extremely comfortable in social situations was dealing with how to be uncomfortable dealing with how to be embarrassed and feeling embarrassed and the first step to overcoming social anxiety is to be comfortable with yourself and to be able to be embarrassed with yourself there were times and Nod your head if you agree that even if you're alone you can still be
embarrassed by either watching something or doing something if you make a funny voice or you're singing in the car and you still don't want to because you're a little embarrassed of what's going to come out how you're going to feel so the first step is to be comfortable being yourself sing in the car Dance by yourself do some wacky weird things and just be comfortable in your own skin okay that's the first step sing a song sing a song Alone to be comfortable in your skin okay Second Step once you're comfortable with yourself which takes
times this isn't a race though it's a life's journey being more comfortable becoming stronger beating mental illness any anxiety or depression this takes time it's not a quick fix lose 20 lbs in a week become more confident in a month no this is all what the media wants you to think this isn't real life [ __ ] takes time my friends once you're comfortable with yourself once you're comfortable being embarrassed with yourself being able to sing like I just did being weird then it's time for you to get out there this is what I do
to feel comfortable this is from my own experience okay what I do is have this perspective and it was on my Facebook page we're on planet Earth in the middle of the universe 7 billion people on the planet and I'm anxious about going and meeting 10 people I'm anxious about meeting one one person or two people or a 100 people I'm nervous about going in public why logically it doesn't make sense because one person and this this don't mistake this for carelessness or ignorance this is simply a fact that you going in a street or
you meeting friends or being anxious in a public place you doing that has really honestly no effect on the rest of the world and that is my mindset again it's not carelessness it's the opposite it means that you're finally being comfortable in your own skin because you're finally acknowledging that not every eye is on you now the friends that you're seeing yeah they're concerned but the rest of the people whatever they're just there they're just other humans you can go do a dance in public you can do some weird [ __ ] people will pay
attention to you for a second and then they'll just walk off okay it's kind of hard to explain so I'm going to try to explain it in another way judgments so let's go back to that if you're dancing in public okay switch it around switch perspectives if you see someone dancing in public or doing something weird that's not normal what's your reaction if you walk by this person on the street oh that's weird oh what's he doing oh he or she's happy right quick judgments quick judgments what's wrong with him or her and and then
a few moments later you just forget about it so think of that judgmental process it's the same with other people it's the exact same so if you're nervous going to a bar or going out in public just think of how your judgments were for other people and it's really the same from their perspective on you so you're in public you're doing a dance you're acting weird and people are like okay what's with that and then they walk away and forget about it the world doesn't revolve around you and that's what I've had to learn the
world doesn't revolve around me it keeps going whether I'm dead or alive whether I'm weird whether I'm smart whether I do dumb things whether I express myself whether I hide in my basement and don't do [ __ ] all day the world keeps spinning so it's up to you to make the choice whether you want to overcome this social anxiety and be comfortable in your skin and actually do it or you can stay inside closed in and not try this because either way the world's going to keep spinning so let's try it try these two
things best of luck kids thanks for watching
