I'm surprised that you're shy lyib. From your posts somehow I had the impression that you're very bold... not that you can't be bold and shy I 'spose. Being shy has been the hardest thing for me in life, I think. getting bullied for it through school until college. I'm at a point where I don't hear people say I'm shy routinely anymore. I'm not sure why since I don't feel very different. But being around people who don't bully me for a few decades now, since I finished high school, has slowly made me more comfortable talking with people when I want to. I actually made an offhand comment about being quiet the other day and the women I was with exclaimed "you're not quiet!" That was pretty nice for me I told them they were the only people in my life who had ever said that, and that got them to insist on it even more.

I think you're younger than me and I'm glad to read you joined a group. I was too embarrassed to really get help with it when I was younger and now I wonder if I could have started feeling better sooner if I had. But my t suggested the other day that I join a group if we could find one. Better late than never