Anyone else out there have devastating social anxiety, yet find themselves in a customer-facing role such as sales or customer service? 

I find one of the most crippling aspects of my social anxiety is being unable to have a conversation with someone without hyper-analyzing what I said or my body language (after the interaction). It's almost masochism to do a sales role where I am interfacing with strangers for 5-6 hours a day.

Also, when I open up about my social anxiety, people often respond with, "No way you're that way. You're too outgoing and personable."

My takeaways are this:

1) Let's tackle the stigma of social anxiety being "not for people who are outgoing."

2) That we recognize there may be a huge group of people in customer-facing jobs that suffer from devastating social anxiety. Let's support one another!

Much love, Reddit.