what is different about your life now compared to start of covid? have you changed jobs, stopped doing a particular thing eg going out with friends, working out? mine got really bad at the start of the year and its still awful. I left a delivery driving job to work in the back of a kitchen. i went from making small talk to people daily to working long hours not needing to speak much. ive concluded that my speech has gone down the gutter because im in my comfort zone and because im burnt out from work. figure out whats different. try exercise.. i started running as a form to beat myself up and i ended up falling in love with it. my mental state was brilliant from it.