When interacting with others becomes a burden. When the fear of judgment turns into an internal prison. Social anxiety goes beyond ordinary shyness. It is an intense and persistent fear of social situations. Fear of embarrassment. Of criticism. Of being seen in a negative light. It can paralyze life. These sayings shed light on this silent battle.
āI never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.ā
āThere's a thing about cocaine - when I was doing it secretly, it didn't make me very sociable. I forget how others were, but it made me very inner-directed. So being in a sketch and rehearsing and the "hail fellow well met" camaraderie and all that stuff, I couldn't fake that or force that. It was painful.ā
