What Is Social Anxiety?
4. Emotional Symptoms
Social anxiety disorder can also cause the patient to become very fearful of talking with other people. They can experience crippling concerns about humiliating themselves and be terrified of being in a situation where other people might judge them. They can also be concerned that other people will notice their anxiety.
The patient can also experience these symptoms in advance of upcoming events, and may try to avoid speaking out of fear of saying the wrong thing. The patient will also often spend a lot of time analyzing themselves after social occasions, looking for flaws and errors in every action they made.
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