I Want to Overcome My Shyness

I am not entirely sure if I am really as shy as some people can be. I was voted "Most Shy" in high school, and I could kind of understand it. I was very quiet in classes. None of my actual friends would ever call me shy, though. I am...

I tend to only focus on my bad qualities, so when I think of myself, the first thing that comes to mind is that I am shy. Everyone at school knows me as the shy, quiet one and sometimes I feel as though I can't act outside of that...

This is my first story here so I guess I’ll write about the reason I join…to overcome my ever growing shyness. Growing up I’ve always been somewhat shy, but never enough to keep me from making new friends or public...

I really hate being so shy... I'm sure those of you who are as shy as I am can completely relate.
I can't tell you how many things in my life have been affected by it.  I have such a hard time making new friends, and doing normal...

It's times like these that I REALLY don't want to be shy anymore.

I went to a women's rights meeting yesterday and I knew one or two girls there so I wasn't walking in cold. I was really, REALLY excited about the meeting too.

Then. It...

I dislike that shyness is apart of my personality. I feel as though shyness is my holding my own self back denying my own potential. Shyness causes me to take baby steps when I have the ability to make leaps and bounds. On the other...

My mother is very shy and nervous as are my aunt and grandfather. So you could say it is in the genes.
I work with children and part of my job involves taking a daily register for up to 80 kids. I can do that no problem and do it in a...

Hi i'm christian and I have been shy all my life, I don't go hang out with friends and go places I have brothers and sisters that don't like to hang out with me and I will stay in the house all weekends if I diden't have or wont to do...

I believe that every guy has a horny and sexy self inside that wants to come out, but we just don't know how to put him out there. That's frustrating. My social life is crap. I'm in high school and my daily life is really shit, man. I...

Thoughts and thoughts and thoughts. At the end of the day all your thoughts count for nothing it's only your actions, what you do that will make a difference in your life  and what people will remember you for.  It's a fine...

I'm not really that shy. I have good friends with whom I'm not close to shy, it's just with strangers usually. And hot girls, they intimidate me into shyness :P

I'm not really a conversation starter with strangers, I can't go up to...

I dunno how to categorize this kind of shyness but I cannot look into the eyes of a stranger (especially a girl) without getting all that conscious about it.I dunno but I call it shyness as I don't tend to maintain an eye contact with a...

i alwyas feel really pathetic around people when i go all shy, i used to get bright red cheeks and still do, although i now wear foundation which covers most of it up, i feel so fake wearing makeup though...
shyness for me means...

okay so this friend that i have been talking about actually is turning out to be a real b*tch. she wants attention too much and she has too much pride!! i used to be jealous of her [still feeling that she is trying to hard to be cool...

I have suffered from acute shyness for as long as I can remember and it has held me back in many areas of my life - education, career, friendships, romantic relationships. Now I am in my late twenties and I do feel that life is...

This is hard for me to talk to about.....Here goes. Everytime I go on Facebook and look at photos of my friends and former classmates, I sometimes get angry & upset. the pics they put up most of the time are them hanging out on the...

I'd like to overcome my shyness, but on my own terms.  In other words, I'd like to address it without losing a sense of who I really am.  I really don't have big issue with my shyness in that I don't think less of myself...