By For many living with Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD), social events can feel like high-stakes performances. The pressure to appear interesting, funny, and “normal” can be so overwhelming that alcohol is often used as a safety behavior to quiet the inner critic and soften the sharp edges of anxiety.
In the moment, this “liquid courage”… Continue reading
By Selective mutism is one of the most misunderstood childhood anxiety disorders. A child with selective mutism may speak freely at home or with a close trusted friend, but may become silent or feel unable to speak in other environments such as school, social gatherings, or public places. To outside observers, it can look like stubbornness or defiance. In… Continue reading
By When social anxiety is causing you repeated problems, you unintentionally get caught up in vicious cycles of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that often end up making you feel anxiety and shame, and hurt how you come across and perform.
The experience of social anxiety involves a vicious cycle fueled by core beliefs of fundamental personal deficiency… Continue reading
By Many people experience much social anxiety when speaking a language that they did not grow up with among native speakers of that language.
According to Ethnologue, an organization that maintains a comprehensive database of the world’s languages, there are approximately 7,159 living languages spoken among the world’s 7.6 billion people (as of 2025). The… Continue reading