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Social anxiety triggers and solutions to overcome them
If you haven’t already, we highly recommend you first read “The psychological root cause of anxiety” before consuming the below solutions. It’ll take ~1min.
If you don’t see a trigger you’d like help with, feel free to contact us.
- Not doing things that are commonly seen or expected of you
- People thinking you’re inferior or less than
- Thinking you’re inferior
- Feeling less than
- People thinking you’re anxious
- People thinking you’ll get anxious in the future during a certain activity
- Imagining yourself speak with a shaky voice
- Speaking with a shaky voice
- Looking uncomfortable
- Being uncomfortable
- Looking nervous
- People thinking you lack social skills
- Having an impulse or desire others don’t like
- Having an impulse or desire you don’t like
- People laughing at you/Being laughed at
- People drawing inaccurate conclusions about you from past actions/behaviors
- Sharing something and not knowing if it makes sense or will be helpful
- Sharing something that doesn’t make sense
- People feeling anxious around you
- People being anxious around you
- People not caring about your opinion
- Seeing something that looks perfect
- Dealing with perfect people
- Someone having a negative opinion of you
- Being a way you dislike
- Getting anxious when someone ignores you or others
- Someone seeing you anxious
- Not knowing what to do
- Being watched/observed/judged/analyzed/perceived
- Getting self-conscious when socializing with others
- Getting self-conscious when sharing personal thoughts with others
- Coming soon: feeling discomfort from eye contact
Want help dealing with social anxiety fears?
We address root cause fears of social anxiety here. Our social anxiety homepage, which contains a psychological framework you can use to reduce social anxiety and links to all our social anxiety insights and solutions, is here.
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Questions or have something to add?
If you have a perspective to overcome a trigger or want us to produce a solution for a particular trigger, let us know. You’ll be notified when we review or post a solution to your submission.
Other recommended reads:
- The psychological root cause of anxiety triggers.
- Real-life examples for how to uncover and eliminate an anxiety trigger/fear.
- What social anxiety is
- What anxiety feels like
- Resource showing you how to find the root cause and eliminate anxiety triggers.
