Copied from r/socialskills 

I’d like to consider myself a confident and happy chap, but whenever I’m in public alone my levels of self consciousness soar and I get so prickly with social anxiety. I understand intellectually that no-one gives two shits about me, but my nervous system doesn’t seem to get the message, and I’m still fraught with nerves. I then look for confirmation bias for the one person that’s watching me, and again, even though I’m aware that this is ‘me looking for confirmation bias’, this realisation does nothing to help with the physical and mental symptoms of anxiety. What the hell do I do?

Is exposure therapy therapy the only way to cut through this and see progress? CBT doesn't work!