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Greater anxiety around friends than strangers

Posted by: alisrowe, September 9, 2015

Just because people are friends, it doesn’t make the social anxiety go away.

A lot of people have an assumption that there will be little to no anxiety felt by a person who suffers from anxiety when they are around their friends. This is absolutely not the case. In fact, I’d imply the opposite – that there is greater anxiety around friends than around strangers.

Let’s look at why.

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