Anxiety is probably the most shared emotional state in the world.
In our societies based on evaluation and competition, “its intensity is further increased by self-exposure via social networks,” emphasizes psychoanalyst Anne-Marie Benoît.
It is more and more difficult to defocus and this focus on oneself accentuates all the symptoms of anxiety.
Hence the need to oppose its different forms with appropriate remedies.
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Social anxiety
In its most intense form, it is called social phobia, or pathological social anxiety.
It is very widespread, reference studies (1) estimate that 4% of the world population suffers from it.
It expresses itself in multiple ways: fear or inability to speak in public, difficulty or inability to interact with people outside of one's first circle of friends, avoidance or escape from social situations bringing people together... In its the most common form, it results in behavior…
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