Скачать или смотреть Understanding and Mastering Social Anxiety with Metacognitive Therapy

The common factor in social anxiety disorder is that attention is fixed on internal signs of anxiety and external signs of threat, making someone with social anxiety very self-conscious. However, inflexible attention amplifies the sense of threat, causing more anxiety.

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Socially anxious people turn their attention inward in social situations and monitor themselves closely for how they think they come across (2). They also monitor other people’s reactions to them (rejecting or bored facial expressions) and other things that are perceived as social “threats.” This strategy is also called threat monitoring.

Self-focused attention is often accompanied by worrying and evaluating one’s social performance.

The solution to overcoming social anxiety is breaking free from negative cycles of worry, rumination, and inflexible attention. In this video, you can learn how.