Individuals with social anxiety disorder show important alterations in self-consciousness alongside fear of social situations.

Evidence

Social anxiety disorder and the psychobiology of self-consciousness (PMC/NIH)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: The Myth of Optimal Awareness - Why Sanity Requires Strategic Auto-Pilot; Too much self-awareness might spawn its own issues like paranoia, overthinking, and self-absorption. — Could More Self-Awareness Be a Bad Thing?; Self-dehumanization was moderately associated with anxiety, negative affect and physical symptoms of distress in a non-clinical population. — Is suffering less human? Distressing situations’ effects on dehumanizing the self and others (+1 more)

Related

• Self-dehumanization was moderately associated with anxiety, negative affect and physical symptoms of distress in a non-clinical population. (similarity 0.81)
• Too much self-awareness can lead to self-doubt, overly evaluative behavior, and unnecessary stress. (similarity 0.78)