Social Anxiety - Our Mind's Reaction To Fear

If you have researched social anxiety or social phobia, I am sure you have come across the term Cognitive Therapy. This is the best way to overcome what I call our “faulty” thoughts.

These thoughts have no basis for fear. These are the thoughts that go through our mind in a normal situation that tells us something bad is going to happen. Like my examples here and here.

A big contributor to our “faulty” thoughts is perfectionism. This leads to the thinking that we cannot do, say, or behave less than perfect. As we all know, there is no such thing as a perfect person.

However, people with social phobia and perfectionism go hand and hand. Do you see yourself here?

• If I'm anxious, I can't function around people
• If I make one mistake, other people won't like me
• If others think I'm no good, then it must be true

Or, do you manage to do something that you normally avoid, and later criticize and dissect every aspect of the event? Like I explained in my telephone example here.

What do you think... are you a perfectionist?

Until next time...