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Overcoming Social Anxiety The 3 Things You Must Know.
For many people the thought of going into a social situation like grocery shopping, job interviews, meeting people of authority and a any other number of social interactions is daunting, frustrating and downright scary. In fact social anxiety and social phobia is the third largest psychological problem in the United States today affecting around 15 million Americans in any given year.
One of the major problem associated with social anxiety is that very few people have herd of it, it is rarely talked about in the media, talk back TV or radio shows, movies, etc and because of this minimal exposure many people with social anxiety suffer in silence thinking that they are the only one in the world who is suffering this way.
One of the strangest things about socially anxious people and that is often very common among them is that they understand that their thoughts and fears are basically irrational.
On a rational level they understand 99% of people are not critically judging or evaluating them all the time, trying to embarrass or humiliate them however even having the knowledge that their thoughts are totally irrational they still persist to feel different.
The great news is that there are lots of help and methods available to those people who suffer from social anxiety and/or social phobia.
Perhaps the most common and popular treatment for overcoming social anxiety is CBT or Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. It has proven to provide long lasting change in people who suffer from social anxiety, blushing, shyness and social phobia.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can be done on an individual basis with a counsellor or in a group. Depending on the severity of your condition treatment may last for a few sessions to months of sessions.
