Social anxiety

In its mild form, it may mean tension in social situations, but as a disorder it involves persistent, intense anxiety and avoidance of situations that make functioning difficult. It applies not only to public speaking, but also to conversations, meetings, asking for help or eating in front of others. It needs to be distinguished from ordinary shyness.

Choose one small social situation and treat it as an experiment: what I predict, what I will do, what actually happened.