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I think it might have been, really, a fear of being seen as anything at all, of being labeled or even noticed. I would likely have chosen ludicrously expensive goods, if the psychologist had handed me about £300 to go around the shop and buy 9 items with.
6 or 7 years back a student Clinical Psychologist, with whom I had 12 sessions, challenged me to tackle a tad of social anxiety by buying the items in Tesco that I would feel embarrassed to purchase, and then carry this basket to the busiest checkout to have the employee and those behind me in...