What do you do when you have extreme anxiety when speaking/writing in your target language?

I have anxiety that everyone I interact with in my target language will heavily ridicule me or assault me just because i’m not “good enough” or “perfect”.

And please, for the love of god don’t say “Therapy” or “medicine”. Therapy doesn’t work for me and I already take medication for anxiety, and it works for every situation except for language learning.

Long story short, when I was learning french as a teenager I constantly got harassed and even almost doxxed by some french people on discord because “my french was shit”. It ended up making me hate the french language and quit learning it forever.

I don’t want this to happen with German. It’s my favorite language. Any advice? Thanks!

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