Here’s How To Overcome Social Anxiety

Social anxiety is a topic that has been on the rise for some time, and something that most people experience at some point in their lives, if not much more often than that.  Social anxiety is what happens to the brain when you are low on practice and the social centers of your brain aren’t getting enough activity so they start to shut down and it goes into an anti-social mode.  It is also what happens when we experience social traumas, that is, social experiences that do not cause us physical injury, but which the brain still wires in as trauma due to their potentially detrimental nature.  These experiences include harsh rejections, bullying, public humiliations, heart break, and being ostracized from a social group.  Basically being treated like the runt of a litter and having no social standing, or losing what social standing you once had, causes social anxiety.  This is because in ancient times when we lived in small social groups, this was basically a death sentence.  However today these experiences are not, they are simply an emotional hardship that we must sometimes endure.  And it is natural to experience social anxiety in certain times and situations, such as when you are trying to meet new people because your last social circle had been treating you poorly, or towards potential mates if your last one broke your heart.  And instead of going to a psychiatrist and getting prescribed some drug to make you feel better but not actually get better, this can actually be a growth experience that can lead to greater emotional strength, and social skills.

 
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