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Sounds like you have performance anxiety (which isn't how it sounds), it's you walk up into a conversation and you self insert but then don't add anything to it and worse don't listen to the other person

My acting couch years ago said a good conversation always consists of 1 + 1 = 2 and he was dead on in that regard, an engaging conversation is one where one person contributes something, and then another person does to equal two and a whole was built by two people. When you get 1 + 0 or worse 2 + 0 there is nothing to be accomplished by the other person who is part of the engagement and they walk away.

My advice is you'll have to sit back and observe the room, engage slowly, find rooms with music playing and *gasp* mirror dance with people or dance to the music, you need to re-find your groove and how to re-mesh with people than trying to force yourself into stuff like a square peg in a round hole, honestly I tell everyone who has either performance or social anxiety to just find people playing music and mirror dance till you learn how to re-engage with people on a verbal and more importantly emotional level and understand how to ebb and flow the conversation.