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bookstores and online retail outlets. Thanks for listening. And tonight's talk is coming out of the lockdowns and the social distancing, returning to the world of interpersonal interactions.

So social anxiety that has developed

over the course of the pandemic. I was actually reading that the Census Bureau does a

pulse survey where they actually take the temperature of our nation's mental health and boy is it

grim reading these days.

In 2019, before they did the study in 2020, obviously, about 10% of the people who filled out the survey,

registered symptoms associated with generalized anxiety disorder or Gad. When that poll was taken in 2020 it went up 300% to 30% of all adults showed symptoms of

generalized anxiety disorder.

And what was even more concerning was that fully one out of every two individuals who lived alone

showed and displayed the symptoms associated with anxiety disorders.

So I thought given the themes I've been hearing and the counseling and reading this fact that it's there's certainly

a preponderance of individuals who have been experiencing some degree of discomfort at the thought of returning to the interpersonal

sphere of social interactions.

So we'll be discussing what causes,

one of the, not all of the causes,

but some of the causes of social anxiety, especially why it's been exacerbated by during the pandemic and what to do about it.

So general anxieties are triggered by unconscious memories

stored in very often the right temporal lobe organized by the right

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