Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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If you rehearse every conversation in your head before you have it—that’s not being careful. That’s social anxiety. Your amygdala is tagging social interactions as threats. So your prefrontal cortex runs a threat-prevention simulation before you even open your mouth. That’s why you’re exhausted after socializing. Your brain ran the conversation three times before it happened once.

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