Thank you, TheGal. I'm sorry you share my predicament... on the bright side, it's the first time I meet somebody who might understand how it feels like.

I truly don't know what triggers it, it's a kind of social phobia, but it has never happened with relatives or people I know well. The rest of people, well, they might thing I'm socially tense or awkward, I don't know.

My doctor was not even trying to fix it for me, just it does happen that after some time with adjusted valproic levels I feel my mental anxiety has gone down and I can interact much better socially - self-sabotaging thoughts pass easier through me and I feel better. I don't have any technique, there was something wrong with the machinery in my brain, but I guess the more importance you give to it, the worst it'll make you feel, like in my case. I don't see any psychologist, have you ever been advised on this by either psychiatrists or psychologists?

Thanks for your message. Hugs