Repost @your_sunshine_on_a_cloudy_day Social anxiety and jumping to conclusions often go hand-in-hand, each make the other worse until a person's brain is chaotic and swirling with anxious thoughts, fears, and worries. When jumping to conclusions is removed, there's plenty of room for peace of mind even when social anxiety remains. To jump to conclusions is to form a thought or an opinion before checking it out for accuracy. A form of jumping to conclusions is mind reading. With mind reading and social anxiety, a person experiencing the anxiety can take one look, even just a sideways glance, at someone and "know" that the person hates him or her or thinks he or she ridiculous, incompetent, and any other negative thing that fuels social anxiety. Another form of jumping to conclusions is fortune telling. Like mind reading, fortune telling contributes heavily to social anxiety disorder because it's driven by anxious, negative assumptions that haven't been proven true. Fortune telling projects anxiety, in this case social anxiety, into the future. It's possible to get off that trampoline and stop jumping to conclusions. There are social anxiety treatments. Reach out for help & explore your options. #anxiety #socialanxiety #jumptoconclusions #fear #yoursunshineonacloudyday #leap https://www.instagram.com/p/BoCl3sInjXT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1n6mq6wp1ffkm