Fear of people very often prevents a person from realizing himself in a profession that requires the ability to communicate. However, such phobias affect not only the professional sphere of life, but also the personal one, forcing a person to refuse to communicate with other people. To overcome this fear, it is necessary to analyze the situations in which you experience it, understand its cause and take a step towards it.
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Fear is a protective function of consciousness. Fear emerges from a sense of self-preservation when a person is physically or psychologically in danger. But when this fear goes beyond all reasonable limits, it develops into a phobia, which is very difficult to overcome on your own. But if the fear of spiders does not complicate life, then the fear of communication prevents a person from realizing one of its main functions - social.
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Reasons for fear of people One of the main reasons is inadequate self-esteem. Each time a person is faced with criticism (most often unfounded) and misunderstanding, he loses confidence in himself and his own abilities. If you do not work with this problem at this stage, then the person begins to close himself from other people, he has a strong feeling that he is not like the others, that he is superfluous. Very often the reason for the fear of communication lies in childhood. If, as a child, a person experienced an unpleasant situation when his peers offended him, drove him out of their society, laughed at him, then he could quite naturally have a defensive reaction - he began to be afraid of people. Much less often, fear of communication is associated with a lack of experience in interacting with society. This is possible if from birth, a person is forced, but at an older age and consciously isolated from society. Having no communication practice, he naturally feels the fear of the unknown.
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Ways to Overcome Fear of People The only way to overcome fear is to do what you fear most. You will need to take your life in your hands and begin expanding the external and internal borders. Shop To perform this exercise, you need to go to a household appliance store, consult a consultant and ask you to tell you in detail about the product you are interested in. The main thing is not to buy anything. This exercise will not only help you learn to communicate with strangers, but also say no to them without subsequent remorse. Passers-by will need to ask the passers-by for directions. Come, ask to specify in detail how to get to a specific object. After each conversation, be sure to praise yourself for defeating fear. Phone You will need a directory of organizations and the phone itself. Give this exercise an hour of your time. Call the companies of various profiles, specify their time, range of goods and services, ask to describe something in more detail. As an option - calls to employers. So you can solve two problems at once - to overcome the fear of communication and find a suitable job.
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If you do the exercises regularly, then very soon you yourself will be surprised at how naturally you began to communicate with people.
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