Say goodbye to social anxiety
IT WAS A GLORIOUS SUNDAY WHEN a message buzzed on my phone. ‘We’re going for a picnic in the park. BYOB. Wanna come?’ My heart leapt. A picnic in the sunshine with a group of my oldest friends – I could think of nothing more delightful. But my euphoria was short-lived, soon replaced by a rising sense of dread.
The venue for said picnic was a park in the far west of the city, miles from home. The journey would involve a train, then a bus. As an extrovert, such details never normally trouble me, the desire to socialise eclipsing the most challenging of
