Social Anxiety Community Group

Social Anxiety is a term used to describe an experience of anxiety (emotional discomfort, fear, apprehension or worry) regarding social situations and being negatively evaluated by other people. Be kind, considerate to all members & help support each other. Please join us, you don’t have to feel alone anymore!

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BEST HELP... and I've tried everything

supportplease
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I have been socially anxious and shy all my life until I read Don't Call Me Shy by Laurie Adelman (I ordered it from www.langmarc.com, the publisher).This book gets to the core of social anxiety, which is the negative way of thinking that keeps us anxious and uncomfortable. You learn techniques and steps so that you can encourage yourself and focus on what you can do, not what you can't...which decreases the anxiety and allows you to feel much more comfortable. This book has been the best thing BY FAR that I've done to help me do better than I EVER THOUGHT WOULD BE POSSIBLE for me and my socially anxious kids. I highly recommend this book!
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Is social anxiety something hereditary? Also thanks for the suggestion.
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thank you for the title, im going to order it now
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Sounds very positive.... thank you for sharing.
supportplease
supportplease
I think that we are born with a reserved, maybe even cautious nature. As we have more and more uncomfortable social experiences, we get increasingly anxious and nervous. That is why the book Don't Call Me Shy by Laurie Adelman is different from anything else on the subject. The book teaches you how to change your way of thinking - from the inside out- which helps you decrease the discomfort...and enables you to begin to change your behavior by being able to feel ready to take more social chances. An amazing little book with an approach that helped me change my life!
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I was never shy until after I had my second child. I think my hormones got the best of me. I have S.A.D. really bad. I don't do well in public places at all. I have to take a klonopin to go to the grocery store. It is ridiculous. The zoloft I just started taking is supposed to help with that. We will see. God Bless to all those who struggle with S.A.D.
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Hi there. I have had SAD really bad for 20 years but now feel like I am getting better. I strongly recommend Dr Richards' audio series, see http://www.socialanxietyinstitute.org/.
I read a bit about the book mentioned above - it seems to deal with helping your children through SAD. I personally have no kids and don't want any until I am well and truly over this SAD thing. Would you still recommend I read it?
Thanks.
supportplease
supportplease
Even though the book focuses on children, it helps adults as much as kids. The book helps adults learn how to actually become a parent to ourself and it explains so many techniques which allowed me to sort of redo my childhood and give myself the positive encourgament that I need. I learned how so much of the anxiety and worry of SAD occurs because of how we think of ourself. This amazing book helps to change our thoughts and beliefs about ourself, we learn to speak to ourself differently.....which enables adults to slowly change our behavior. Yes, I would definitely recommend it for adults!