Dr. Aziz states that social anxiety’s many symptoms (fear of judgment, rejection, loss of belonging) stem from a single root cause: self-judgment and a belief that one is unworthy of love, connection, and success. He calls this a deep-seated ‘grudge’ against oneself that may persist for months or decades and says that resolving this self-judgment will dissolve social anxiety.
There is a secret source, a root, a seed of social anxiety that creates all the other symptoms. So social anxiety is not coming from that. You're afraid of what other people are going to think of you. It's not that you're afraid of being judged by others. It's not that you're afraid of people rejecting you. Those are all the symptoms of social anxiety. The source at the root of it is one thing that creates all those symptoms and a thousand others and I'm not going to list in this short video the one thing is that you are not right with you. You are judging yourself. You are critical of yourself. You don't think on some level that you're worth love, connection, belonging, friendship, success, wealth, everything you want in your life. Deep down you have a grudge against you that you've been holding onto for months, years or decades. And when you change that your social anxiety will dissolve.
