Social anxiety?
14 August 2010
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omfg_scissors asked:
I have severe social anxiety/phobia. Ive been on some medication before, and decided to get off of it due to various reasons. Is there anything else that would help me overcome my social phobia ?
I have severe social anxiety/phobia. Ive been on some medication before, and decided to get off of it due to various reasons. Is there anything else that would help me overcome my social phobia ?
face your fears. maybe start with a pen pal, and then move up to saying hi to someone. if you want to e-mail me for practice, i would totally not mind at all. in fact, i need to practice this myself.
Yes many things. Speaking purely from my own experiences, medication is only helpful if symptoms of depression become severe and life threatening.
I have social anxiety and was on medication for many years. I feel like they are lost years now, I just didn’t really care about anything – didn’t feel good or bad. I’m now off medication and hope to never go back on it unless I become very ill.
Things I try to do are look for ways of tackling issues I have which may be causing the anxiety rather than trying to suppress it. I’ve also tried to actually like things about myself I hated previoulsy.
The big thing that helps many people is CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. I’ve never had it but may one day if I can afford it or get time. You can also read books like the one in the link below which introduce you to the principles of CBT – Changing habits of negative thinking.
Good luck.
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