Regret after positive social interactions
I found this on the subreddit for Avoidant Personality Disorder and thought some of y'all might relate.
When trying to follow advice from the Healthy Gamer channel in trying to get over my rejection sensitivity and general social avoidance, I've come across the problem in the image and I don't know how to solve it.
How can I use the principles of exposure therapy to teach my brain that socialising is safe and okay when I feel shame, regret, and pain after any neutral and even POSITIVE interaction with other people in which I have revealed a part of my personality/emotions/opinions/likes/dislikes?
My brain retrospectively saves every social data point from these interactions as negative, which further reinforces me not wanting to do it again. How can I get around this?
I found this on the subreddit for Avoidant Personality Disorder and thought some of y'all might relate.
When trying to follow advice from the Healthy Gamer channel in trying to get over my rejection sensitivity and general social avoidance, I've come across the problem in the image and I don't know how to solve it.
How can I use the principles of exposure therapy to teach my brain that socialising is safe and okay when I feel shame, regret, and pain after any neutral and even POSITIVE interaction with other people in which I have revealed a part of my personality/emotions/opinions/likes/dislikes?
My brain retrospectively saves every social data point from these interactions as negative, which further reinforces me not wanting to do it again. How can I get around this?