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Does any one ever have major anxiety being around people?? Do you get nervous and if so how do you handle it?? What do you do in the situation if you have to go to a party , or anywhere in a social sitting, that you dont know any one?? How do you handle the anxiety??
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Just ACT like you belong anywhere you want to go.
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