“Social Awkwardness” and Corona: “If fears are not confronted, they often spread”

AAs the chief physician at the Heiligenfeld Clinic in Berlin, Sven Steffes-Holländer, 46, is familiar with psychosomatic illnesses. Although it is not a psychological disorder, after more than a year of the corona pandemic, he is particularly concerned with the phenomenon of “social awkwardness”.

WORLD: What social phobias and fears did people develop in the pandemic?

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