Five tips to help you relieve social phobia

Social phobia is not scary. In fact, at least seven or eight out of ten people in our lives suffer from social phobia to varying degrees. It’s just that the degree varies from person to person, and most people do not need treatment. However, if social phobia has affected your work and study, you must actively seek treatment and change some of your lifestyle habits. Below are five methods introduced by psychology experts to alleviate social phobia for your reference.

Social phobia is the rejection of all ways of communicating with others. Social phobia will make us more and more lonely and feel that life is boring. So. How can we alleviate social phobia?

1. Don’t pay too much attention to your body’s reactions

Tension is always accompanied by a series of physical discomforts. According to reinforcement theory, if we pay too much attention to the nervous reactions of certain parts of our body when we are nervous, it is equivalent to reinforcing our nervous behavior. Make it heavier step by step. When we ignore our nervous reaction, it will gradually subside over time because the nervousness is not getting attention or reinforcement.

2. Be bold

Some people are afraid to go out on the streets and are afraid when they see people. Before going out, they may comfort themselves psychologically by imagining that they are very powerful and treating the people on the street as scenery or animals. If you see a cute puppy or a turtle in a certain scene, will you be afraid? I believe most people will not. Before going out, give yourself a psychological hint: "I can do it." First go to the convenience store downstairs to build up your courage, and then gradually move to places where there are more people. Slowly, I believe everyone’s courage will change.

3. Lessons Learned

People with social phobia may have been denied, rejected, or bullied. You can think about it, life is not always smooth sailing, everyone will experience some setbacks, and only after being rejected and denied will you learn to grow. Even if we experience something unpleasant, we should learn from it and start over, instead of gradually closing ourselves off. A few years later, when we look back on the hardships we have experienced, we will feel that it is actually nothing. Remember this sentence: "The sword is sharpened by grinding, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold."

4. Get rid of inferiority complex in social situations psychologically

If you have a negative mentality, you will often be unwilling to talk much and unwilling to take more activities. In fact, everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. Being not as good as others in socializing does not mean that you are inferior to others in everything. You should think more about your strengths. People who are not used to socializing should especially get rid of their inferiority complex and establish a self-reliant, self-confident and independent spirit. Only in this way can you overcome negativity psychologically, become proactive and appear generous in dealing with people.

5. Don’t set too high standards for yourself

If you pursue perfection too much and set too high standards for yourself, you will easily become anxious about gains and losses, care too much about what others think of you, and want to be recognized by others, thus losing yourself. Accept your current situation and don't care what others think. The more you fear making mistakes, the more helpless you will feel.