Sometimes, I wonder, so very much, which came first: my intense worries that people do not like me or the fact that they do not. And what is the relationship between social anxiety and self-fulfilling prophecy? Can we unintentionally bring about the end of a really nice and lovely friendship because of our own severe doubts that the other person has just been extremely polite the entire time?
It is so emotionally painful to constantly live in doubt and fear over how others see you and whether they truly want to be your friend or not. There are no concrete words or any way to truly capture it :(
This article below is one of the best I have seen on the topic of social anxiety and self-fulfilling prophecy:
https://socialanxietyinstitute.org/self-fulfilling-prophecy-breaking-cycle
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