How To Overcome Social Anxiety By Addressing The Root Cause Of Your Social Phobia

Social anxiety is a result of your brain working too hard to protect you from getting hurt. There is a special part in your brain called amygdala that is responsible for everything related with fear.

This amygdala functions as a smoke detector. Every time it senses a possible danger, it fires an alarm to warn you about that danger. Your brain chemistry, specifically your levels of serotonin, change and you start to experience the unpleasant symptoms of social anxiety – symptoms like shaking, blushing, excessive sweating, trembling voice, increased heart rate, unpleasant feeling in your stomach and your mind going blank.

These symptoms function as a warning sign and are here to warn you about the possible danger you are being exposed to.

In general, this is a good response because it allows you to remove yourself from that threat as quickly as possible. This response helps you protect yourself from getting seriously hurt or even killed.

If you encounter a gang, there’s a real danger of something bad happening to you and your brain tries to protect you.

When you have social anxiety, the amygdala works too hard to protect you. It tries to warn you about the possible danger even in situations that are not really life threatening. It warns you about situations where you could get emotionally hurt because it doesn’t perceive any difference between physical and emotional pain.

The good news is that this kind of behavior of your brain is a learnt behavior and can be changed. In order to change how your brain reacts to social situations we need to understand why do we perceive social situations as dangerous.

During your childhood years and adolescence we’ve experienced lots of different emotional situations. Based on how these situations made us feel, we’ve developed certain beliefs about ourselves and other people. Some of these beliefs are positive, … some are neutral… and some are limiting and cause us to get anxious in social situations.

All these beliefs feel like the truth to us because they represent our reality. Our beliefs represent who we are. Our beliefs represent our identity and that’s why even limiting beliefs feel like the ultimate truth to us.

Beliefs like:
- I’m not good enough.
- I have to be perfect in order to be loved or accepted
- I must always look strong and confident.
- I must get other people’s approval
- People would disapprove of me if I were to be myself.

These are all negative limiting beliefs that cause social anxiety.

These and similar limiting beliefs about ourselves and other people now cause the amygdala to fire the alarm and warn us about the emotional pain we could experience in social situations.

Limiting beliefs are the triggers of our social anxiety.

When we eliminate these triggers – when we eliminate the negative limiting beliefs that make us feel unsafe in social situations, there’s nothing left there that could trigger the anxiety again.

Our amygdala doesn’t have to warn us about perceived danger anymore because it doesn’t perceive social situations as dangerous anymore.

Consequently our social anxiety is gone as well and that’s how we overcome social anxiety - by eliminating the triggers that cause the anxiety.

[Cookiekeks]

I think the core of social anxiety is fear of embarrassment. Do you agree?

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i wish i was confident so i could apply for a job (i have no purpose in life)

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