What are your go-to safety behaviors? Have you tried challenging yourself to reduce them? What happened if you did?

  • devonian@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Ehhh? Some of those seem accurate, but there’s a whole lot of stuff just down to personality and the people you’re talking to that’s left out here. For example, being quiet is not inherently bad or anxiety-inducing, for some people it’s quite the opposite - and how people act depends a lot on who they’re with, be it friends or authority figures or what have you. Nice idea! But this is a massive generalization of a post that just leaves me going ehhhhhhh

    • ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Safety behaviors are a big thing in social anxiety. Nothing is wrong with being quiet per se. We are talking about staying quieter than you normally would because of social anxiety. So, burying your true personality traits - aka masking - with safety behaviors.