I Tried Rejection Therapy for a Month to Ease My Social Anxiety—Here’s What Happened

I Tried Rejection Therapy for a Month to Ease My Social Anxiety—Here’s What Happened

Turns out vulnerability hangovers are realDeagreez / Getty Images Rejection therapyI’m the type of person who apologizes to inanimate objects when I bump into them. I overthink every text. I rehearse how I’ll ask a question in a store, then bail and Google it instead. In short, social anxiety and I are very well acquainted.And while I’ve gotten better at coping with rejection as I’ve grown up, that background hum of “what if I embarrass myself?”…