Everyone is waiting for your downfall.
Everyone is waiting for the right condition to insult you.
Don't give them the opportunity.
Tighten your boundaries and close the doors.
At your lowest point no other human being is going to be able to do anything but distract you from doing what you actually need to do.
Many find comfort in socialising and having people to talk to, which is good and fine. Can be life saving.
But often they’ll come out of a depressive period not truly understanding that much more about themselves and the intricacies of how they work.
They’ll eventually fall into it again.
The final stretch is you facing yourself alone. Nothing else. It is a disgusting and horrific process.
And your entire body knows you need it.
Jordan Peterson on why social anxiety is really a self-focus problem:
@jordanbpeterson explains that social anxiety is fundamentally driven by excessive self-referential thinking.
"If you're feeling social anxiety in a situation, part of the reason for that is because you're thinking about how you're feeling."
He points to fascinating research on language patterns and mental health. When you analyze the words people use in speech and writing, a striking pattern emerges: the more someone refers to themselves, the more likely they are to be depressed or psychotic.
"You can actually distinguish with 75% accuracy between people who are clinically depressed or clinically psychotic and people who aren't by the number of times they refer to themselves."
The core insight is simple but powerful: "The more you think about yourself, the more miserable you are."
But Peterson warns against the obvious trap in trying to fix this. You can't just tell yourself to stop thinking about yourself. That's still thinking about yourself, and you'll fall into the same pit.
Instead, he offers a practical redirect:
"If what you decide to do is to pay way more attention to the other person and try to make them comfortable, then that social anxiety will disappear."
The solution is a redirection. Rather than fighting your own self-consciousness, you shift your entire attention outward. Make the people around you more comfortable. Focus on them, not on how you're coming across.
It's a counterintuitive reframe: the cure for feeling awkward is caring less about your own performance and more about the person in front of you.
@SomoinaKapeen To add on that, we must be aware of people's wickedness just as Roy masters said. We react because they planted their own wickedness in us and as a result they end up controlling us how they wanted e.g someone insults you and instead of analysing the whole situation we react toit