How Can Shyness Be Genetic If I Wasn’t Born With It?
As a doctor of psychology specializing in the treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder and Excessive Shyness, I find that my patients come up with some very interesting questions. One of them is, “Why do you say social anxiety is rooted in genetic factors when I didn’t get these sympoms till I was sixteen (or twenty-three or whatever)?”
The answer to this question has two parts. First of all, the genetic component of social anxiety is “trigerred” by something in your environment, followed by a period where your avoidance of the anxiety symptoms causes it to build up steam to become full blown social anxiety. So the genetic vulnerability was always there, just not on the surface yet.
The second part of the answer is that not all people have the exact same form of social anxiety. Some people do have the traits of inhibition and sensitivity from the day they are born. They may have only started noticing it in the teen years or later when it starts to matter to you (because your goals are being blocked by the shyness). The more you notice and fear your symptoms of shyness and anxiety, the more power they develop. That’s why the social anxiety secrets system is so powerful in its approach.
Till Next Time…
Dr. Snyder
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