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Social anxiety can involve negative cycles of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that exacerbate and self-reinforce. In social situations safety behaviours, negative thinking, attempts to battle your own symptoms may just end up continuing the pattern.
It is important to remember that thoughts, feelings and behaviours can change. Evidence shows Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) can enable new strategies, behaviours and ways of thinking.
Please also see our pages on Fight or Flight, Exposure therapy and hierarchies, Avoidance and safety behaviours, Making progress.
Further reading:
www.cci.health.wa.gov.au – Vicious Cycle of Anxiety PDF.
www.itsjustafeeling.co.uk – Panic is a trick
www.nationalsocialanxietycenter.com – Anxious about being anxious
