in a nonsocial situation, try an easier exercise from your hierarchy and 
don’t move on to the more difﬁcult exercises until the easier ones become 
manageable. If you ﬁnd that a symptom exposure exercise is overwhelming 
only when practiced in the context of a social or performance situation, 
you can practice an easier exercise from your symptom exposure hierarchy 
and work your way up to the more difﬁcult exercises. Or, you can continue 
to practice situational exposure without the symptom exposure exercises. 
Hold off on introducing symptom exposure practices in social situations 
until you are able to manage the situation on its own (without symptom 
exposure).