WHAT UNDERMINES YOUR CONFIDENCE IN SOCIAL SETTINGS?

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After a social event, you tend to:

♥ Post a happy picture on social media

◆ Wonder why you dreaded it so much

● Realise others are more sociable than you

■ Follow up to make sure everyone’s happy

Right now, you feel better after seeing people who:

● Made an effort to get in touch

■ Seem to appreciate your efforts

♥ Don’t feel they have to impress

◆ Make you laugh and take life less seriously

You’d socialise more if it didn’t leave you feeling so:

♥ Inadequate

● Drained

◆ Exhausted

■ Resentful

Generally, your biggest barrier to self-belief is:

■ Overthinking everything

♥ Comparing yourself to others

◆ Feeling as if you can’t cope

● Feeling like an outsider

Your ideal social event involves:

■ Organising a treat for someone else

● Catching up with an old friend

◆ A last-minute and low-key get-together

♥ Well organised and planned in advance

You admire people who seem to:

■ Attract people effortlessly

♥ Not care what others think

◆ Know how to say no

● Have an established social circle

Too much time on your own makes you feel:

♥ Aimless

◆ Bored

● Forgotten

■ Anxious

Before a big social event, you worry that you’ll:

■ Have left someone out

♥ Wear the wrong thing

◆ Have time to go to it

● Be welcome

In a group, you tend to be the:

■ Organiser

♥ Leader

◆ Doer

● Outsider

What others think of you…

♥ Keeps your standards high

◆ Motivates you to do more

● Is hard to work out

■ Is usually better than you expect

Circle the answers that most closely apply to you, then add up the symbols. Read the section (or sections) you circled most to find out what could be fuelling your social anxiety.