Your anxious mind tends to jump to scary conclusions and then lock on them, making it difficult for you to step outside the anxiety box to look around to see whether or not you’re really in danger. This is particularly true when the situation or event is ambiguous and could, therefore, be interpreted in several ways. If you have social anxiety or become very anxious in social situations, you’ll understand what happens when you interpret a look on someone’s face to mean that she’s unhappy with you or that she thinks you’re weird, boring, or annoying.

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