12 min

How Social Anxiety Impacts What You See Visually - Episode 31 Social Anxiety Society

    • Mental Health

If you told me this 5 years ago I would never believe you.

Social anxiety or facing just anxiety or depression (long-term) is similar to wearing an involuntary biochemical pair of sunglasses 🕶️ I’ll explain what I mean…

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I’m not exaggerated or using this as a metaphor. The same way when you put on those Ray Bans…all of a sudden there’s a darker filter on the world, it’s the same.

It's not an exaggeration when you hear people or see in movies how people who are depressed see the world in black and white grey colors with no vibrancy or color 🌈

Additionally, its been shown when your nervous system’s fight & flight shifts into sympathetic....it literally makes you see people’s facial expressions as hostile making you think nobody likes you 😥

When this mode in your nervous system is activated you also feel out of control, the world is dangerous and threatening, you face thoughts of hostility and fear and are unable to think clearly or even make decisions.

Believe me or not, this is the reality for many people who face social anxiety.

I also had no idea until I saw the opposite happen in front of me..

Read the rest of the show notes: https://markmetry.substack.com/p/youre-not-gonna-believe-me

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~~~CONNECT w/ MARK~~~
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/
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- Twitter: https://twitter.com/markymetry
- Website: https://www.markmetry.com/
- Email: markmetry722@gmail.com

If you told me this 5 years ago I would never believe you.

Social anxiety or facing just anxiety or depression (long-term) is similar to wearing an involuntary biochemical pair of sunglasses 🕶️ I’ll explain what I mean…

*************************
Check out my self-paced online anonymous affordable course. Hundreds of people have already taken it with amazing results. It walks you through how to step by step, day by day, week by week, climb out of social anxiety and become yourself - markmetry.com/program
*************************

I’m not exaggerated or using this as a metaphor. The same way when you put on those Ray Bans…all of a sudden there’s a darker filter on the world, it’s the same.

It's not an exaggeration when you hear people or see in movies how people who are depressed see the world in black and white grey colors with no vibrancy or color 🌈

Additionally, its been shown when your nervous system’s fight & flight shifts into sympathetic....it literally makes you see people’s facial expressions as hostile making you think nobody likes you 😥

When this mode in your nervous system is activated you also feel out of control, the world is dangerous and threatening, you face thoughts of hostility and fear and are unable to think clearly or even make decisions.

Believe me or not, this is the reality for many people who face social anxiety.

I also had no idea until I saw the opposite happen in front of me..

Read the rest of the show notes: https://markmetry.substack.com/p/youre-not-gonna-believe-me

- Subscribe to my FREE Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3eANWld
- Read or Listen to my book Screw Being Shy: https://bit.ly/2PqV2QI
- Quickly Apply for 1 on 1 Coaching: https://bit.ly/2Pslqd0

~~~CONNECT w/ MARK~~~
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-metry/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markmetry
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/markymetry
- Website: https://www.markmetry.com/
- Email: markmetry722@gmail.com

12 min