Sentences with phrase «crippling social anxiety»

He can't make eye contact, he places an x over people's faces as if mentally marking them off as potential friends and his depression is clearly compounded by crippling social anxiety.

Gliding between his own story and a broader perspective, Stossel first describes what severe anxiety is like: in his case, it is an obsessive fear of vomiting, coupled with uncertain bowel control, crippling social anxiety and panic attacks.

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Nadine herself is characterised by crippling anxiety and the selfish desire to designate herself as a so - called «special snowflake» because of her social awkwardness.

They've seen its unique brain patterns and, to the relief of introverts, have distinguished it from shyness, a crippling anxiety over social interaction.

Over the past two or three years, I seem to have developed a crippling case of social anxiety in certain work situations (namely, talking in meetings) to the point where if I'm asked to share an update with the group or even introduce myself, I have a panic attack, start trembling, quite literally can't speak, etc..