Social Anxiety Group Therapy

As a clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of individuals with social anxiety disorder, I can tell you that group therapy provides unique and powerful opportunities for beating social anxiety symptoms.  The power of groups comes from many sources.  One source of power is believability.  You are more likely to believe three people giving you [...]

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IBS interacts with Social Anxiety Symptoms

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Social Anxiety Symptoms very often go hand in hand, with one set of symptoms worsening the other set of symptoms.  IBS exists on its own as a medical condition, but for a very significant number of people the symptoms of IBS get triggered by the fear of having symptoms in [...]

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A review of a system for overcoming facial blushing or “going red”

If you have excessive facial blushing, you don’t need to read a long article about how excessive blushing has been researched and treated. All you need is a straight forward guide to do something about it now! That’s part of my social anxiety secrets system that you can find under “Recommended” on the socialanxietysecrets.com homepage. [...]

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Surviving a job interview with social anxiety disorder

Surviving a job interview with social anxiety disorder is not easy, but you may find the following tip useful.  While I don’t recommend reliance on medication as a sole method for beating social anxiety (because you never really overcome it in the long run by using medicine), it can be useful to get you through [...]

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How Self Esteem Affects Social Anxiety Symptoms and Social Phobia

The Effect of Self Esteem on Social Anxiety Symptoms and Social Phobia is huge.  People who have bombastic confidence and strong assertiveness skills to go with it rarely fall prey to social anxiety symptoms or social phobia.  It’s not impossible for someone with high self-esteem to have social anxiety symptoms, but it’s more common that [...]

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Social Anxiety Can make you tired.

Social Anxiety Symptoms can really wear you out!  Have you ever noticed that after a round of social anxiety reactions you often become very tired?  Some people find that their mind begins to wander in that space-out way, while others find that they just want to take a nap. The reason this happens is because [...]

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Light Therapy: What it is and why it can reduce social anxiety symptoms

Light Therapy For Social Anxiety Symptoms? That’s right.  It’s that time of year, in the United States, when the days begin to be shorter and our exposure to the bright light from the sun begins to diminish significantly.  The effect for some people is an imbalance of the brain hormones and body hormones that regulate [...]

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How To Stop Caring So Much What People Think About You.

I was bombarded with emails today about this new system that is now available for reducing your thoughts and fears about what others are thinking of you.  If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “Don’t trip, Don’t trip,” or going red after telling a joke that no one laughed at, this system might be just what [...]

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Has this ever happened to you? Can’t breath in the spotlight?

Here’s a terrifying experience.  Have you ever been asked to give a monologue of some sort, like a status report on a project at work, or a description of an incident that has occurred, only to find that when all eyes are turned on you it suddenly feels like you don’t have enough breath to [...]

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How Can Shyness Be Genetic If I Wasn’t Born With It?

As a doctor of psychology specializing in the treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder and Excessive Shyness, I find that my patients come up with some very interesting questions.  One of them is, “Why do you say social anxiety is rooted in genetic factors when I didn’t get these sympoms till I was sixteen (or twenty-three [...]

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