How Social Anxiety Can Reinforce Itself

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I’ve experienced varying levels of social anxiety throughout my life. I’ve been fortunate in that there have only been a few years in which the social anxiety was truly crippling — when I would avoid almost all forms of social interaction.

One of the most common pieces of advice that I’ve heard for overcoming social anxiety is to simply face my fears: put myself in social situations and push…