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It is important when reading my story to know that this is my own personal experience and opinion and what you may be going through could be different and have a different path to overcome the issues that you have. What I can say for sure is that I have overcome my Social Anxiety. I want to start by telling you my understanding of Anxiety from what I have experienced and from an explanation given to me by a talking therapies coach in West London. I will then go on to tell you my story up until the day of writing this post. I will finish with giving my advice on what steps you could do to overcome your anxiety. “What is Social Anxiety?” is a difficult question to answer because we’re still not fully in agreement about what causes it and how to cure it. My Talking Therapies coach who saw me towards the end of my struggle told me that essentially every human has a an ‘Anxiety Gauge’ with a limit. When our Anxiety reaches a certain level, we go into ‘Panic Mode’ and ‘Fight or F...

Hello! My name is Matt. I’m a former Bath Spa Uni student, self-confessed anxious-wreck and overall nice guy. I’m a bit shy and anxious, as you can probably guess from the fact that I’m writing an advice piece on avoiding loneliness at uni. Of course – uni is such an exciting time in your life, a time when you’ll make your “forever friends”, get rather jolly and eat far too much pizza. But beyond the lolz, the empty bottles of fizzy pop on the windowsill and the Two for Tuesdays, student life can be a lonely place. So, here I am - a graduate with 5 years of student experience - to give you some tried and tested methods to sustain a happy, lively and active lifestyle. 1. First Round On Me? Something that no self-respecting student is ever going to decline is a free drink. Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder…. Or something like that. I got to my third year and found myself moving in with a house of strangers. Thankfully, I had the chance to meet a couple of them befo...