Also interested. My social anxieties show the most in every day life situations not so much at work or at least no longer. During company parties it’s the worst. I receive a strong flight reflex and only want to go home. The more people I know better but that doesn’t always help. Alcohol helps but that isn’t an alley I want to follow.
What I found interesting: I traveled the West coast this summer and I have no real problem talking with foreign people in a different language. Maybe it’s because these are meaningless encounters anyway I don’t really understand it. Other interesting fact is, if you ask my friends (which I don’t count many.) they might tell you that they didn’t see this part of me. I can mask it pretty good. My wife sees it a lot. I tend to leave conversations I don’t like or put up phone calls and other things to the very last minute. But at work? I had luck to work very long with the same set of people. That gives me a great trust foundation. Starting somewhere new? Just the thought feels like a nightmare.