31/03/2022
If you struggle with social anxiety, here are three tips that can help.
1. Imaginal exposure can be a very useful tool. In your mind, visualise and practice introductions or imagine ways of ending a conversation. Picturing yourself in these situations in your mind will help give you more confidence in the real scenario.
2. After a social situation, reflect and ask yourself whether the outcome was better or worse than you had hoped. Were your predictions overly negative? How did you feel after?
3. Dont put so much pressure on yourself to make conversation and instead, become an active listener. Most people are very happy to talk about themselves if given the chance. If you worry about not coping with the lull in conversation, a simple trick is to pick a word from the other person's last sentence and say 'Tell me more'.
Hope this helps, any further questions on the topic send me a DM.
