Social Anxiety Disorder affects millions of Americans, and it causes alters their perception of friendship! Matt Lieberman from SourceFed joins DNews to explain ...
========== Social Anxiety Disorder affects over 15 million
Americans. New research suggests that maybe you should give any SAD-suffering friends
a big hug, though don’t be surprised if they’re stunned to receive one. Hey folks! I’m Matt Lieberman filling in
for DNews. Social Anxiety Disorder, at its core, is the extreme fear of judgment and
ridicule from others. This makes it intensely difficult for sufferers of the disorder to
develop friendships. To make matters worse, they operate under the assumption that the
friendships that they can make are not of a high quality. However, new research suggests
that this perception may not in fact be true. This feeling is actually still the disorder
at work. It’s a painful cycle of isolation, where the sufferer assumes that they are not
worthy of fr...