What 20 Years Of Social Anxiety Actually Felt Like
This episode is different from most of what Dr. Aziz makes.
It's the story of what twenty years of social anxiety actually felt like, told from his own life rather than through clinical examples or composite clients. The moment it began, at age 11, in a new school where he wore the wrong socks and felt himself starting to disappear. The middle school dance where he was having the time of his life until he overheard two kids in the bathroom mocking everyone who was dancing, and walked out having quietly decided he wouldn't dance again for a decade. The bread-aisle moments in college, when he would freeze in front of an attractive woman at the toaster and pretend to look at the jam. And the night he finally turned, not on his eight-thousandth try at thinking his way out of it, but in a moment that came from somewhere deeper than thought.
The version of Dr. Aziz you see now looks like someone who never went through any of this. He did. Severely. For two decades. This episode is what it actually felt like, and what finally broke him out.
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