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Regarding the Academy Awards, the actor states that “they have always represented a social problem for me” and seeing them on television was wonderful: eight is the maximum number of people that can be supported at the same time.
What is social anxiety?
The relief of seeing the Oscars on TV is the triumph of freedom
Sean Penn talks about anxiety and panic
The condemnation of selfies as soul-sucker
Invasion of personal space and tantrums
How to recognize and manage social anxiety?
Sean Penn opens up about social anxiety at the Tribeca Film Festival, during an interview with CNN. The actor explained that the key moment for his awareness occurred during the Golden Globes in January, upon exiting, when a crowd of people asked him for a selfie. Crowds can trigger adverse reactions and create significant barriers, and in fact, Sean Penn has decided to set a psychological limit of 9 people for his mental health, beyond which interaction becomes unbearable for him. Even if it means having to miss the Oscars, as happened at the last edition, held three months ago.
What is social anxiety?
Sean Penn finds himself at the mercy of the crowd during the Golden Globes, an unbearable situation for him, resulting in the “emotional short circuit ” caused by having to divide his attention among hundreds of people at once and the declaration that he doesn’t want to attend events with groups of more than eight people. But what is social anxiety?
Social anxiety is a nervous system alarm response that activates in the presence—real or anticipated—of social situations perceived as potentially judgmental or evaluative. Penn’s “emotional short circuit” describes a precise mechanism very well: when the number of social stimuli exceeds the person’s cognitive and emotional processing threshold, the system goes into overload . It’s not fear of the people themselves, but of the inability to simultaneously manage too many relational cues —eye gazes, expectations, roles, judgments. For Penn, eight people represents the limit within which regulation is still possible : beyond that threshold, perceived control collapses.