12/07/2025
"I make excuses to skip gatherings. The thought of small talk exhausts me. I feel like everyone's judging me. I've lost friendships because I can't bring myself to show up."
Social anxiety doesn't just make events uncomfortable—it progressively shrinks your world until isolation feels safer than connection. But isolation feeds anxiety, creating a spiral that gets harder to break.
Treatment options include counseling to develop coping strategies, ketamine therapy to reduce anxiety symptoms, or a combination approach. The key is intervention before isolation becomes your entire existence.
Your world doesn't have to keep shrinking.
Break the spiral: https://www.onwardclinic.com/scheduling-form