Do you think social anxiety might be caused by other's rejection and not just paranoia?

Besides the above answer, I would add that people have to change their thoughts to the ones they had on SRI's and then they can drop medication. If they don't change their thoughts and attitudes then the problem gets worse and the SRI's don't work then. The tricks are to drop negative words before they become negative thoughts.

Every day think of things you see around you that are not threatening, things you like in yourself, people and your life. Then meditation calms us down plus belief in a higher power works even if it's just in your mind. It's a calming positive idea.

If nothing else the mind eventually believes what you tell it, of put another way you are ordering it to take your word for it.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.