How to stop worrying with one simple question Have you ever been so worried about something that you couldn’t sleep, eat, or enjoy life like you should? Incessant worrying is like a disease. It festers in your mind and robs you of enjoying life. Those of us with anxiety suffer from unnecessary worry all the …
How to Calm Down When Anxious Using Grounding Techniques Have you ever been in a situation where you start to panic because you can feel an anxiety attack coming on? The thoughts start to go off in your mind… “Don’t panic, stay calm”, but this only makes you focus on the impending anxiety attack even …
Proven strategy for social anxiety – Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) Have you seen how many social anxiety techniques are out there? There are tons of them! But which ones actually work? I struggled with social anxiety for years and years. I had the rapid heart rate, the shaking, the awkwardness, the quiet voice, and I …
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How Anxiety Tricks You Anxiety, whether it be social anxiety or any other kind of anxiety, is a trickster. Usually the methods we employ to try and fix the anxiety backfire. The methods we use seem logical, but they have the opposite effect and actually make the anxiety worse. Why is this? Let’s think about …
Great video from Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Matt Abrahams How to think fast and talk smart Matt Abrahams talks about studies that have been done that show that 85% of people get anxiety before public speaking. He says the other 15% are probably lying, and I completely agree with him. This is a …
Those of us who have or have had social anxiety know that your day is filled with an extreme fear of being judged, rejected, or negatively evaluated. We fear and avoid anything that will trigger our social anxiety – it drains the life out of you. We find it easier to simply avoid social interactions …
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is basically an extreme fear of social situations. There are many examples: eating out in public, working while being observed, talking on the phone in public, resisting a salesperson, entering a room where people are already seated, conversing with people of authority, and public speaking just to name a few. Everyone …
The fear of public speaking (a type of performance anxiety), is very common. A lot of people fear public speaking more than death itself. For years I wondered why so many people, including myself, feared public speaking (whether that be in front of a very large or small crowd) so much. I wasn’t just scared …
Understanding shyness – why am I shy? We have all experienced shyness, but some of us feel it much more deeply and almost all of the time. It’s like being trapped in a box. In social situations like meetings, group conversations, parties, and other events, you feel like a bystander – you feel like you …
Although shyness and social anxiety do share some characteristics, they are not the same thing. Some shy people have social anxiety disorder (SAD) and some do not. Additionally, some people with SAD are not actually shy at all. There are are so many similarities between the two, that social anxiety disorder is often dismissed as …