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Local Groups

Panic Anxiety Support Group of Pittsburgh - Downtown, Oakland, Shadyside - meets once a month at UCP Community Service Center. Contact Help Line, (412) 255-1155.

High Functioning Autism/Aspergers Support Group of Pittsburgh - Contact carolynkhare@yahoo.com.


Useful Links

There are more links on the Working Up the Courage to Go page. These are some resource directories.

Anxiety Disorders Association of America - information on anxiety disorders including support group and therapist listings.

Freedom From Fear: Anxiety and Depression Resources - information on anxiety disorders and depression also including support group and therapist listings.

Psych Central - information on mental health, inluding information on anxiety and panic and a resource directory.



Some things that may be interesting.

Story on Social Anxiety from NPR, an 8 minute piece about a woman with social phobia who sought Cognitive Behavior Therapy.

Happiness is contagious, a recent study broke their questionnaire on happiness into four questions, "how often during the past week, one, I enjoyed life, two, I was happy, three, I felt hopeful about the future, and four, I felt that I was just as good as other people." In terms of effect on a person's score: "A happy friend is worth about $20,000."

Social Effectiveness Newsletter, a regular (about 20 issues a year) short e-mail newsletter with exercises and insights to increase social effectiveness. From the author of "Diagonally-Parked in a Parallel Universe: Working Through Social Anxiety".

How to do better socially, a web site put up by a person who learned some social skills on his own and is trying to share what he found worked. He may not be done learning, but he might still have something useful for you.



The following are some professional resources and websites that have asked to make themselves available to those with social anxiety. Inclusion in this list is not necessarily an endorsement. These resources are being made more available here, in case one may be specifically what someone feels they need.

The Driving Fear Program, by Rich Presta, a program for overcoming driving phobias, with a regularly updated blog and Fear of Driving web community.

Social Skills Coach, Wendy Halley-McAllister in Pittsburgh brochure.

oFear, a social anxiety disorder web forum. (If interested, you may want to compare with Social Anxiety Support's web forum.)

A Layman's Guide to Managing Fear, articles and book using Psychology, Christianity and non-resistant methods, by Stanley Popovich.

Shyness & Love: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment, a web site hosting an out-of-print book that tries to get at some of the psychology of introversion in men. It may or may not describe things you see in yourself, but has some interesting, though at times weakly supported, premises.

Physicians for Patients, a free physician moderated web forum for those suffering from anxiety.


 
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Social Anxiety Quote
June 6, 2009
"I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of a song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
and the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in "Random House Treasury of Friendship Poems"

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2009 Pittsburgh Social Anxiety Support Group