Caring too much?

Would caring less about things make your SA less severe?

Do we care too much about;
Friends?
Being alone?
Money?
Relationships?
What people think?

If we cared less, as in 'screw it all.. I'm not going to give a crap about what others think of me' would that lessen SA generally?

Easier said than done I know, but food for thought yes?

absolutely!

being too self-aware and over thinking everything to a pulp has been crippling for me all my life

I care too much about ideological stuff that is nearly impossible to change and i get frustrated and do nothing. Then one or two things my family says to me just infuriates me and i can't sleep. I care about my sisters children too much that i'm mad at her and their father.

In my experience, yes. I went from being a perfectionist who cared about every little detail to a much less motivated individual who really doesn't care much about what other people think of him or anything really. I'm not even close to as anxious as I once was, but I also lost something that came with those cares. Painting the line between giving a shit but not so much you're up all night worrying would be perfect I think. And caring about the right things, too. I remember someone saying once something along the lines of that thinking too much is not a problem, but thinking the wrong way/about the wrong things can be. I think this logic can be applied to caring too.

I feel like is does. Caring less helps. I think SA is related to OCD in a way. Trying to make things perfect that can't be made perfect.

I feel most of my depression, anxiety etc.. Is from over thinking everything and being a naturally caring person. Like I literally care for some people I only spoke to on the internet and it's a bad struggle I have.

I think it can make it worse. I think that naturally, anxiety sufferers make us slightly more compassionate and sensitive to others.

I've found that my anxiety has lessened now that I've learned to care less... I think there would be a limit though, and it would become slightly destructive.

Most of the time I don't care, but when you haven't had a social life in years it starts to wear on you and all the old demons you worked so hard to overcome find hold in your thoughts again. Constant loneliness and solitude validates them. The closest thing I have to a social life is being nice to my instructors and being delighted when I get happy e-mails back because their students don't often thank them for their help that day. Online friends literally avoid me after meeting in person, which has me double-checking myself to make sure I'm not actually hideously ugly or slurred in speech.

Half the articles out there on coping with loneliness are written for people who have friends, because they tell you to go spend time with your friends. God, to have the problems of someone who's lonely because they have options they're ignoring phone calls from...