Dr. Micaela

And we do each...

have our own vulnerabilities or kind of like predispositions towards being more reactive in certain emotional profiles.

So that complicates things even further, right?

Okay, so let's bring it back to, I thought I just had social anxiety, but turns out a lot of this stuff is ADHD.

well, ADHD is gonna make me a shitload more vulnerable to social anxiety, right?

Because of that frontal lobe deficit that's not gonna be as good at regulating the emotion.

And so my brain is going to activate patterns of responding in socially anxious or in anxious ways when I, and social anxiety is defined as the fear of negative evaluation by others.

And so that is really like,

when I'm talking about social anxiety, I probably should have started with that.

Like I'm afraid that I'm being judged negatively by other people.

And so this might look like, oh, I don't like public speaking.

I don't like going to parties, but it can also look like

I'm hyper-conscious about my body or my physical appearance because of the fear that other people are going to judge me.

Not just because I'm like, oh, I don't like my nose.

I don't like my hair.

I don't like this or that.

But it's at the core of that is because other people

are going to judge me negatively.

It can also come up in performance situations, right?

So like, oh, I have to get the best grade on this, or I have to get like a five-star review on this because otherwise people will judge me negatively, right?