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Here are some exercises and next steps you can take towards some freedom from social anxiety. Not all the exercises in the books are included so if they're helping you, consider looking into getting your own copy.
Dying of Embarrassment, by, Barbara G. Markway, Ph.D. and 3 other people
Activities:
- Paced Breathing
One Time Activities:
- Setting Your Goals and Objectives
- Why Should I Change My Reactions to Disapproval?
The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, 3rd Ed., by Edmund J. Bourne, Ph.D.
The Worry Cure, by Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D.
Activities:
- Your Discomfort Diary
- Your Worry Record (p.97)
- Set Aside Worry Time
One Time Activities:
- Disappear To See Reality
- Your Discomfort History (p.92)
- Determine How Likely It Is That What You Are Worried About Will Actually Happen
- Test Your Predictions
- Think of How You Could Cope if the Bad Outcome Actually Happens
- General steps you could take: make it to a meeting, find a local therapist, go to a local CBT class, read stuff on SA
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Eventually, I'd like to see some kind of feedback system, so that if you try something and you got something out of it, didn't get something out of it, or didn't finish (still relevant data) that feedback can go up there with the exercise to help other people. For now, if you try something and want to get any kind of review up there, e-mail me what you thought of the exercise.
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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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