This is a specific trait with key consequences that in the past has often been confused with innate shyness, inhibitedness, innate fearfulness, introversion, and so on.
Amanda, an intravert, and Tina, an extravert, combine to offer tips on fighting shyness. They identify one of the factors as (negative) preoccupation with self. As Amanda says, "Most people are not looking at me with the detail that I am looking at myself." Excessive Negative Self-Preoccupation means you tend to pay too much attention to all the things you are doing wrong when you are around other people.
Even as social anxiety has become big business for the pharma industry, with billions of dollars of sales of anti-anxiety meds, here is an expert who offers the contrasting view. https://amzn.to/3ppfezD
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