Social anxiety can make any gathering feel daunting. Long before someone steps foot in a crowded party, the restaurant where they're having a first date, or the conference room where they're giving a ...

A smile, tears in your eyes or a blush on your cheeks: We understand one another better by mirroring one another's emotions. In her Ph.D. dissertation, Julia Folz concludes that people with autism or ...

Autism and social anxiety can look similar on the surface, but new research reveals meaningful differences in how empathy is ...

When you have social anxiety, walking into a room full of people can make you feel like every eyeball in the place is boring directly into your soul, and that nothing you say will possibly be smart or ...

Cliched advice can be a hit or a miss, It depends on the context, how it's received, and when it is given. When we dissect it, we can often extract multiple meanings. Some of it, however, is plain bad ...

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TUPELO – Anxiety is a normal response to a stressor, something that causes strain or tension. By itself, anxiety shouldn’t be made into some sort of pathological phenomenon. It is something that is a ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Social anxiety can make any gathering feel daunting. Long before someone steps foot in a crowded party, ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. When you have social anxiety, walking into a room full of people can make you feel like every eyeball in ...