Social Anxiety Symptom Checker

  • Find it difficult to speak when you are in a group and people are looking at you

  • Feel exhausted for hours or days after anxiety-inducing social events

  • Get nervous if you have to speak with someone you don’t know

  • Worry that people will think you are boring, stupid, awkward, or weird

  • Worry that people will laugh at you or that you will make a fool of yourself

  • Ruminate about what you should or shouldn’t have said to someone 

  • Imagine that people are judging you harshly

  • Feel an urge to run away, hide in the bathroom, or go home in certain social situations

  • Feel that it’s impossible to stop your anxious thoughts

  • Rehearse what to say

  • Wear sunglasses, scarves, headphones, or hats to hide from others

  • Feel that you are very ‘in your head’ in social situations, worrying and monitoring yourself

  • Hate small talk

  • Feel your heart pounding, face flushing, mouth getting dry, hands trembling, voice cracking, and/or feel yourself sweating, getting lightheaded, or needing to go to the loo

  • Avoiding some social situations, e.g. public speaking, phone calls, or dates, at almost any cost