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Elena Touroni, a consultant psychologist at a private clinic in London, talks about social anxiety and how it inhibits sufferers from interacting fully with other people, or making them avoid social situations. https://www.thechelseapsychologyclinic.com Chelsea Psychology Clinic are a group of London psychologists and psychiatrists offering private psychological therapy and psychiatry treatment from their premises across central London and Chelsea. The private therapy sessions cover the following areas: – Acceptance & Commitment Therapy – Cognitive Analytic Therapy – Cognitive-behavioural Therapy – Couples Therapy – Dialectical-behaviour Therapy – Mentalisation Based Treatment – Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy – Schema Therapy
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Social anxiety is an anxiety of interacting with other people predominantly. So, a lot of the time it can be very much also combined with the person feeling very self-conscious and very shy. Often people with social anxiety would find situations such as parties or any kind of event that means that they have to interact with people they don’t know very well, extremely anxiety provoking. Being with any groups of people really frightening, and that’s because they’re very frightened of judgment. They’re frightened of what other people might be thinking about them, they are frightened that their mind might go blank, they might not know what to say in a situation. They might some of the time, have some skills deficit, so they might not quite know how to engage in conversation with people. And again, like all other anxieties, people tend to avoid social situations as a result of this. And so they never gain confidence and an ability to over time, just feel a bit more comfortable interacting with other people.
