Social Anxiety

Social Anxiety Treatment – What Are Your Options?

Understanding your Options – Seeking Professional Help Treatments Available There are a variety of approaches to treating Social Anxiety (SA). However, they basically come down to a two step approach. Step 1 – reduce the anxiety. Step 2 - encourage the person to engage in real life activities and, through repeated exposure to the feared [...] Read more »

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Social Anxiety Treatment – Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavior Therapy - Theory As noted in the introduction, people with SA are able to experience anxiety through their thoughts alone, without being in the actual situation. However, the thoughts themselves may often be distorted. Since there is avoidance of the feared situation, this thinking does not get corrected by reality. With CBT the [...] Read more »

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What is Social Anxiety?

Social anxiety is where a person is nervous or uncomfortable in social situations. The fear is often one of doing something embarrassing, making a bad impression, or being judged negatively by others. Social anxiety may be specific or generalized. In the case of specific anxiety it is only triggered by one or two situations. These [...] Read more »

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Components of Social Anxiety

Discussion of the Components of Social Anxiety Have a careful look at this diagram. It illustrates the connections between beliefs, distorted thoughts, anxiety and avoidance behavior. It shows how these reinforce each other to perpetuate the symptoms of social anxiety. The good news is however, that changing any one of them will in turn change [...] Read more »

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Components of Social Anxiety

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