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Social Anxiety: An Expert's Take

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

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How Does This Social Anxiety Fear Keep Going?

Why are we defaulting or over compensating to such an extent that we think the worst is going to happen in every social situation? We have this idea, right, i'm not going to be liked, and then we start doing these behaviours to prevent the fear. So often it's a kind of manifestation of that fear of disappointment or that fear of jud if it's so unlikely,. Like you said, like, the facts are that we probably are in our social we probably are liked. You know, no one's thinking that way about us.We're all worrying about ourselves.

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