No Need to Worry About Social Anxiety Disorder!
Are you extremely self-conscious in social situations? Do you feel like everyone is watching and judging you? Do you fear being humiliated or embarrassed by saying or doing the "wrong thing"? Then you may be suffering from social anxiety disorder, also called social phobia.
In fact, it may be so bad that it interferes with your daily activities.
Maybe you even spend days worrying about an upcoming social situation.
It may seem overwhelming and like you will never "fit in" like everyone else.
But there's no need to worry.
There are ways to overcome social anxiety disorder if you take some very simple, but effective steps.
The first thing you need to learn is to stop worrying about situations that make you uncomfortable and self-conscious.
See, the problem is that you build up all this worry in your mind in advance of the situation so that when the time comes, you actually have already talked yourself into doing what you fear.
It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy For example, the more you worry about embarrassing yourself in a social situation, the more likely you are to do something embarrassing.
It's a vicious cycle that you need to break.
The next thing you need to do is to understand your anxious thoughts and see them for what they really are...
just one of many fleeting thoughts that pass through your mind every day.
If you can put your anxious thoughts into the proper context, it will be easier to confront them and ultimately, to conquer them.
Finally, you need to get to the point where you are comfortable confronting the situations that cause you stress and anxiety.
Today, you may avoid those situations like the plague.
But in order to truly overcome your social phobia, you have to be able to put yourself in those situations fully aware of your feelings and confident that they won't stop you from being yourself.
Now, I said these were simple steps.
I didn't say they were easy.
Very few people (if any at all) can will themselves out of their social anxiety disorder.
Most need some help.
And that can come in the form of medication and/or therapy.
In fact, it may be so bad that it interferes with your daily activities.
Maybe you even spend days worrying about an upcoming social situation.
It may seem overwhelming and like you will never "fit in" like everyone else.
But there's no need to worry.
There are ways to overcome social anxiety disorder if you take some very simple, but effective steps.
The first thing you need to learn is to stop worrying about situations that make you uncomfortable and self-conscious.
See, the problem is that you build up all this worry in your mind in advance of the situation so that when the time comes, you actually have already talked yourself into doing what you fear.
It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy For example, the more you worry about embarrassing yourself in a social situation, the more likely you are to do something embarrassing.
It's a vicious cycle that you need to break.
The next thing you need to do is to understand your anxious thoughts and see them for what they really are...
just one of many fleeting thoughts that pass through your mind every day.
If you can put your anxious thoughts into the proper context, it will be easier to confront them and ultimately, to conquer them.
Finally, you need to get to the point where you are comfortable confronting the situations that cause you stress and anxiety.
Today, you may avoid those situations like the plague.
But in order to truly overcome your social phobia, you have to be able to put yourself in those situations fully aware of your feelings and confident that they won't stop you from being yourself.
Now, I said these were simple steps.
I didn't say they were easy.
Very few people (if any at all) can will themselves out of their social anxiety disorder.
Most need some help.
And that can come in the form of medication and/or therapy.