The 'Overlooked' Social Anxiety Symptom That Appears When You Say Someone's Name

When you think about social anxiety, you might imagine common symptoms like sweating, avoiding group conversations, and trembling.

But a 2025 paper called another lesser known sign of social anxiety – dubbed alexinomia – “important” and “overlooked”. 

Alexinomia, which seems to have been coined in 2023 in a Frontiers study, may also be linked to autism and mental health conditions, though it is not an illness or diagnosis in and of itself. Research from 2024

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