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Ellen Hendriksen || How To Be Yourself

The Psychology Podcast

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Making Friends With Anxiety

A lot of social anxiety is driven by perfectionism. What people are looking for in a potential friend is warmth. People don't want to be friends with people who, i think they just rode in on a high horse. Thatis at a metaphor on bel bepors. But what we'll take want to befriends with people who are human, not superhuman. And so that's a really important kind of thing to get one's mind around when we think about making friends.

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