Are you an adult suffering from social anxiety? You’re not alone. While many hide their anxiety from others, because of a fear of being judged, studies show almost 12% of adults will suffer from social anxiety sometime during their adults lives. Read on for 5 coping strategies.

Learning what we say to ourselves and changing it over time can be very helpful in social anxiety treatment. The more you practice gently replacing those negative thoughts with more realistic ones, you will find your social anxiety starts to dissipate.

Do you ever find yourself only focusing on the negative during the week? It’s common for us to have “a bad day” when things just don’t seem to go our way. Life happens. But when this becomes a consistent pattern, you should become a bit more concerned and might be experiencing a cognitive distortion called mental filtering.

Learning what we say to ourselves and changing it over time can be very helpful in social anxiety treatment. The more you practice gently replacing those negative thoughts with more realistic ones, you will find your social anxiety starts to dissipate.