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Social anxiety, with Dr Ellen Hendriksen

Instant Genius

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Is Perfectionism the Heart of Social Anxiety?

In social anxiety, we have a long list of rules in our head for how we should be. So do we need to identify these rules which might not be correct and sort of get them in the ring again? Yeah, well, I think it's helpful to try to lower the pressure. People actually appreciate imperfection. When people present too perfectly it can be a little alienating or a little unrelatable. But when there are again these blips and bloops of kind of normal human interaction it brings people from a level of superhuman to simply human that makes us connect and like them more.

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