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Compare your internal self-image with how you actually appear on video to challenge distorted self-perception in social anxiety.

Log interoceptive exposure exercises that deliberately produce feared body sensations to break the link between sensations and catastrophic interpretations.

Identify and challenge positive beliefs about worrying — the beliefs that keep you worrying because you think it helps.

Test how attention to the body creates and amplifies sensations — demonstrating that body scanning is part of the problem, not the solution.

Compare the effects of self-focused attention vs external focus during social situations to test whether self-focus makes anxiety worse.

Test the belief that thinking something makes it more likely to happen (likelihood TAF) or that thinking something is morally equivalent to doing it (moral TAF).

Gather normalising evidence by surveying others about whether they experience the same body sensations and fears — challenging the belief that your experience is abnormal.

Identify rigid dietary rules and design experiments to test what happens when you break them.

Test the depressive prediction that "nothing will be enjoyable" by predicting pleasure before activities and comparing with actual experience.

Test specific predictions about the consequences of changes in shape, weight, or eating.