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Social Anxiety Disorder: Events
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A sense of dread tops the list of the cognitive symptoms of social anxiety disorder. Normally sufferers set such high performance standards for themselves as to be impossible to meet and will obsessively prepare for the event only elevating their level of apprehension. They will engage in elaborate "worst case scenarios" and at the event itself will interpret neutral or ambiguous remarks and conversations as critical and negative in tone. The slightest mistake, a stuttered word or failure to laugh on cue at a joke, becomes magnified into a major faux paus and taken as predicative of similar mistakes at future events. People who suffer from social anxiety disorder literally do not see, hear, or interpret events, settings, and actions as other people would.
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People with social anxiety disorder often experience panic attacks during or soon before the social event. They may avoid situations they think will trigger the social anxiety or refuse to go places where they feel out of control.
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Negative evaluation of events and people are the cornerstone of social anxiety and constantly make their presence felt. A chat with a friend or stranger can bring hours of ruminations about what was or could have been said.
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