How to Change Social Anxiety Into Excitement
Seeing dating and relationships as exciting opportunities vs. stressful threats. Anxiety is a bad feeling (negative valence) of urgency (high arousal) from situations we see as threatening. Calming down is hard because we must change both our valence (think positive) and arousal (relax) to do so. With only positive refocusing, however, anxious social situations can become exciting opportunities instead. When we experience situations that are new, uncertain, or not under our control, we can...
