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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 - the bigger picture

I’m going to take a break from talking about conversation techniques to address an issue that has been nagging me for some time. It has to do with happiness, basically.
Now, I wouldn’t know happiness if it bit me in the…well, you know. Furthermore, I wouldn’t really know how to handle it should it ever [...]

Self-induced stress

I’ve always believed that stress is a silent killer, and that my social anxiety creates much more stress than is necessary. Compared to an average, non-SA, person, I have always felt that I torture myself with thoughts and feelings that the average person doesn’t have to deal with. Hence, when it comes to my physical [...]

Social anxiety and obsessive thinking – using up precious resources

Let’s face it: Human beings have limitations, both physically and mentally. Regardless of who we are and how talented we might be, we all have finite resources in which to handle everything that life throws at us. When a good portion of my thoughts are squandered on something as powerful, yet meaningless, as the social [...]

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 [...]

Overcoming failure and hopelessness

For many years I felt as though I was simply destined for failure. I mean failure in everything, not just socially, but in every aspect of life, love, and success. Try as I might, I could not shake the feeling that there was some mysterious force steering me towards that ultimate outcome.

Embarrassing shyness

It is common knowledge that roughly 4-7 percent of the population suffer from social anxiety. If this figure is accurate, you would assume that this would be noticeable in public - but I’ve never been able to do this. Everyone looks perfectly normal. You don’t see 7% of the people in a mall, on a [...]