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When social events become performance anxiety battlegrounds

My college reunion is next month and I have been working out obsessively because I am terrified everyone will judge how I look.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Future judgment anxiety transforms natural preparation into compulsive self-improvement.

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