Now that you understand social anxiety a bit better, the time has come to make things more personalized and look into your own life. Don’t worry, this information is personal and for your benefit only. What you need to do is identify those situations, which worry you the most. Once you have done that, you would be able to understand the psychological mechanisms, which make those situations bothersome for you. Social anxiety is often linked with assumptions about the outcome of things and a great approach to revealing those tricky assumptions, is to ask yourself two invaluable questions - “why” and “what”.