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Social Skills Insights

By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
(Strategies For Optimum Success)
Q: Whenever I discuss shidduchim with Social phobias are characterized not only
my twenty-two year old daughter, she
becomes nervous and panicky. She blush-
speech, but also by a powerful desire to
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all sweaty. She has always had trouble
making friends and prefers small groups
to large ones, but her fear of shidduchim People who believe they might have so-
- cial phobia exhibit some the following
ture chosson. I keep telling her to relax symptoms:
and be herself, but I just don’t think I am

can do?

A: While I cannot know for sure without
having met your daughter, it sounds like avoid speaking to people
she has some form of social anxiety. In -
2001, in The New York Times, Margaret thority
Talbot reported that around 13% of the

While social anxiety was originally consid-
- Many people might exhibit one or two
chologists, teachers, and parents began to