How Does Alcohol Affect Social Anxiety?
A little liquid courage can take the edge off anxiety, but too much liquid courage can cause all sorts of problems. Self-medicating with the anxiety-reducing properties of alcohol has...
How Different Are Social Anxiety and Generalized Anxiety?
All non-anxious people are alike, but every anxious person is anxious in their own way – to paraphrase Tolstoy. Two broad kinds of anxiety people can experience are social...
Shyness Trajectories Predict Mental Health in Adulthood
It’s a common assumption that shy children are more likely to have mental health problems as adults, so a group of researchers from McMaster University decided to put that...
Watching Yourself Makes You Think Everyone Else Is Watching You Too
Ever feel like everyone’s looking at you? More often than not, no one is paying as much attention to you as you’re paying to yourself. But we’re not always...
