Diagnose and Reframe Social Anxiety Around Friend Initiation

You draft the message, decide they'll find you needy, and never hit send. This pins the exact cognitive distortions behind that, mind-reading, fortune-telling and the rest, names them properly, and reframes each into something you can actually test in real life. You learn to spot the trap before it cancels your plans again.

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You experience [describe your social anxiety pattern, e.g. fear of seeming needy, worry that friends don't actually like you, paralysis before sending a message]. This has been affecting your friendships by [specific impact, e.g. you rarely initiate, you cancel plans last-minute].
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**Identify the cognitive distortion(s) at work**, name them precisely (e.g. mind-reading, fortune-telling, personalisation). Then for each distortion: state the anxious thought, challenge it with a reality-check question, and offer a reframed belief you could practise instead.
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One section per distortion: Anxious Thought / Reality Check / Reframe. Maximum three distortions.
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