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Do you regularly feel like you freeze up or become inhibited before having to speak to a group? Do you find that you consistently avoid situations where you will have to speak or interact with a large group of people? If you answered yes to either one of these questions, you will probably find some information in this week’s blog that you can use.
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Do you often feel inhibited in social situations, and wonder where this came from? Do you remember having had a deep-seated sense of insecurity about yourself from an early age, but aren’t sure where this came from? Chances are there is some emotional mistreatment in your background, despite whether you feel like you had a normal childhood or not.
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If you ever watched the movie Crash, you know how intense some of the interactions between the characters were in it. That’s my sense of the flavor of how ours have been the last 12-plus months in Covid have been and how strange re-emerging from this can feel for those with any degree of social anxiety. Will life ever be the same? Will I ever feel normal in my human interactions? I will try to answer these questions below…
Do you find yourself not going out anywhere for fear of being around other people and not knowing what to say to them? Do you avoid certain situations for fear it might put you in front of someone else you would feel awkward or even worse? Is the only time you can feel relaxed when you’re by yourself? If any of these are true, you may be suffering from social anxiety.
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