Social anxiety is natural🤔

Social anxiety is natural.

You can see it as an immune system against embarrassment/cringe, humiliation, rejection, and other forms of social pain.

But the problem is when it misconfigures.

For normal individuals, social anxiety kicks in at a healthy threshold, to warn you that what you’re about to do is potentially socially tragic.

Based on the positive/negative feedback you’ve received from people around you over the years. Especially during your crucial formative years.

You internalize what’s socially acceptable and what’s not.

But what happens if say, you experience a lot of bullying at school?

When you’re bullied, you face a lot of embarrassment and humiliation literally just for existing.

You’re getting negative social feedback for doing nothing.

So your social anxiety threshold misconfigures.