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“You’ve Got Me All Wrong - Really”
It’s funny, with all the time I’ve devoted to improving my social anxiety problem over the past three years, you would think that I’d be able to handle the odd “bump in the road.” You would think that with all the progress I’ve made, it would take a major cataclysmic event to derail me. [...]
Some People Just Can’t Help Staring
This weekend my parents are entertaining some of my out-of-town relatives. For years it’s been kind of an unofficial tradition on the Labor Day weekend. We don’t always congregate at my parent’s house; we alternate each year between three or four different households. Fortunately, this year I didn’t have to travel too [...]
Social Anxiety Disorder is Life Limiting
A few nights ago I was sitting at home watching the Olympics when I noticed that every single athlete selected for an interview seemed very comfortable in front of the camera. Of course, some seemed more at ease than others, but for the most part, everyone was able to handle speaking in front of [...]
Living (Happily) With Social Anxiety
Living with social anxiety is tough, but it could be worse. That’s the realization that I’ve come to at this point in my life. Yes, I sometimes feel cheated and I can’t help but feel a sorry for myself on occasion, but I really think I need to start putting things in perspective. [...]
A little reward for all that effort!
With each passing day, I find my spirits lifting. While I still have a long way to go with my social anxiety problem, I am finding it easier to relate to others and stand my ground when things are less than ideal. In a way, it’s almost been like the classic “snowball effect”, where things [...]
Social anxiety exposure practice - Halloween night
Over the past few years, I have built a list of exposure tasks that I engage in. I generally perform these according to the emotional state I’m in at the time. However, I always manage to do something each day. For me, that’s critical, because if I let things slide, then I’ll feel like doing [...]
Social anxiety disorder and an overwhelming situation
While browsing through You-Tube looking for social anxiety type videos (many of the personal video blogs are quite interesting), I came across a clip of, what appears to be a guy with SA, being put on the spot by David Letterman.
Now, one could automatically assume that this individual had social anxiety disorder because of how [...]
Related topics
The topics I write about are generally based on social anxiety. However, I also enjoy writing about other self-improvement techniques I feel have helped me deal with many difficulties – including SA.
The previous post is a good example of that. It is merely a coping technique that can be applied to many difficult [...]
The real price of social anxiety
Social anxiety disorder has contributed towards a lifetime of pain and suffering. There is the obvious anxiety, fear, low self-esteem and depression that I have had to deal with all my life, but it has also taken a toll in a slightly less obvious way.
Up until now, this condition was left to run unchecked. It [...]
Back to 2002
Peeling back the layers and starting from the lowest common denominator is something that I have been hammering away at for many of my previous posts. I apologize for the repetitiveness, but I want to convey the importance of this, and also be as detailed as I possibly can.